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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: we're back with Pat O'Conner, co-author of the new book Origins of the Specious: Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language. RS: For instance, consider English's lack of --

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Mary Morningstar Cross Canadian Ragweed formed in 1994, and spent the next eight years building a regional fan base in the southwestern U.S. The Oklahoma-based band released four albums on its own lab

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By Mary Morningstar Washington 20 December 2007 Veteran performers and newcomers contributed to the success of Country music in 2007. Although record sales overall continued to fall as digital downloads increased, several Country acts celebrated mult

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AMERICAN MOSAIC -June 7, 2002: Who Is Uncle Sam / Digital Movies / Country Music Awards HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC — VOA’s radio magazine in Special English. (THEME) This is Doug Johnson. On

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By Scott Stearns White House 24 May 2007 President Bush says U.S. troops in Iraq face a critical time during the next few months as they try to implement his new strategy. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, the last of the additiona

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Two new discoveries could offer easier ways to identify infectious diseases in developing countries. Red Maasai hair sheep, native to East Africa, in a photo from the International Livestock Resear

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By Gary Thomas Washington 22 August 2007 The Central Intelligence Agency has released a report sharply critical of the CIA's senior leadership in the years and months leading up to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. As VOA correspondent Gar

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Not My Job: Garth Brooks Gets Quizzed On Other Garths play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0009:40repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin. PE

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The duo of Bob Cousy and Bill Russell was one of the greatest. They were the Tracy and Hepburn, the Rocky and Apollo of the basketball court. They could anticipate each other's play. They could put themselves into each other's mind

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By Tom Rivers London 26 February 2008 A man described as one of Britain's top terrorist recruiters has been found guilty of training young followers in rural camps in England. For VOA, Tom Rivers reports from London. Tanzanian-born Mohammed Hamid, wh

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March 4 is National Grammar Day, so I have a special top-10 show to celebrate the occasion, and before you argue with me, read the whole explanation about why each of these is a myth. The podcast version of this article is brought to you by Audible.c

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When I was eight years old I went to Girl Scout camp with my best friend Lauren. It was for two weeks and it was in the middle of July so it was really hot. We had no air conditioning. We actually slept in Tee Pees like the native Americans. It was a

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March 8 is International Women's Day, a national holiday in Burkina Faso. One way of celebrating is by making new clothes from Women's Day cloth that is designed with a new pattern every year. Burkina Faso is Africa's largest cotton producer, but the

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By Heda Bayron Hong Kong 19 November 2007 The ailing former Khmer Rouge president, Khieu Samphan, has been arrested for his role in Cambodia's mass killings in the 1970's and charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity . This is the latest mo

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By Al Pessin Lima 06 October 2007 U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates discussed the fight against drug trafficking and other international crime during a visit to Peru Friday. VOA's Al Pessin reports from Lima. A Peruvian defense ministry official sa

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By Scott Stearns White House 09 June 2006 President Bush says there will be U.N. Security Council action against Iran, if the country does not stop enriching uranium. The U.N. nuclear agency says Iran this week launched a new round of uranium enrich

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Hours after the Mauritanian president fired top military officials on Wednesday morning, three of the fired officials seized the presidential palace and established a new state council. They have announced that President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abd

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Todd: OK. Growing up in America, in the United States, as a young child, we have three special people, mythical people, we believe in and we really like because they give us gifts or money. The first special person is the tooth fairy, and the tooth f

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A wet Sunday in a country inn! Whoever has had the luck to experience one can alone judge of my situation. The rain pattered against the casements; the bells tolled for church with a melancholy sound. I went to the windows in quest of something to am

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Today, a United Nations court sitting in Cambodia, found one of Pol Pots leaders guilty of war crimes. The man called Duch was the chief of Khmer Rouges main prison, S-21, where around 16,000 people were tortured and then murdered. He was sentenced t

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acephalus
Almaznyy
Arsenophyllite
atom-manipulation function
audio-guides
bacchanalian
barrel (bbl)
battery reef
blank string
boned chicken
brake camshaft bracket bushing
budget economics
BWST
caicco
camera bellows
cash-limiteds
chocolate cyst of ovary
closed bell
coding wheel
cuninghams
cyanide radicals
daguerreotyped
dancing
Derizene
direct print plywood
direct-coupling motor converter
distance to go (dtg)
driza-bone
electric chronograph
electrooptic(al) crystal light valve
engineering problem
eucalyptus umbellata domin
fencing swords
flood-land
flowchart convention
flue gas desulfurization gypsum
generator heat run test
governments-to-governments
hantu
hardhitting
high land basalt
Humoxal
intermode beat frequency
isolated mask
jaxom
junction gate number
lampanyctus nobilis
letter missive
lunar reproductive cycle
magnet-motive potential
main truss
make a martyr of themselves
man butter
metroguide
miter clamp
MMSF
Moravian Church
muises
neuroes
no cover
non-return to reference recording
occipitotemporal convolution
oil density
oil temperature rise trip device
paramenta
percussion-wave
perinovaginal fistula
pin down something
postmove
principle of clarity
psammitic schist
quasi-umbilical direction
red softe
renal cortex
reproductive apex
resource economics
resource-extractive
responded
robert hutchings goddards
sanjiu weitai capsules
schemm diet
schismas
secretary
sibselection
Sigmavirus
specular stone
speech production
sport cabin
spot-up
stone mortar with pestle
the Inns of Court
threaten to do sth
Tzummarum
unmelt
vincenzo bellinis
wallow in the mud
wheatlike
Windaus, Adolf
written quotation
wvu
ysalamir
Zacharaisen's rule