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This week on Marginalia, Beth Golay visits with author Patrick Ryan about his novel, "Buckeye."

As we reach the end of the year, we get some grab-bag whiplash with English questions and conundrums from all over the language spectrum.

This week on Marginalia, Beth Golay speaks with author Virginia Evans about her novel, The Correspondent.

This week, we look at some words that have come unstuck in time.

What could be more fun for the holidays than digging into the bizarre world of Latin and Greek plurals? Nothing! That's what! (This episode originally aired on 12/14/24.)

This week on Marginalia, Beth Golay speaks with author Susan Orlean about her memoir, Joyride.

We extend our quiz about abbreviated words into a second episode, and Kathy learns that people don't always do things just to look fancy (a lot of the time they do, though!).

We answer a few listener questions, including one about a changing pronunciation that drives one person nuts, and another about abbreviations that leads us to some surprising (and confusing) places.

This week on Marginalia, Beth Golay speaks with the author and translator of “The Ferryman and His Wife,” Frode Grytten and Alison McCullough. And we're joined by Emma and Sam Kaas from The Norwich Bookstore in Norwich, Vermont, with some book recommendations.

This week on Marginalia, Beth Golay speaks with Sue Roe about her new book, Hidden Portraits: Six Women Who Shaped Picasso’s Life, and Suzanne Perez reviews The Merge by Grace Walker.