These are just a few recent mentions in the press.
February 2, 2011: “Dickens in America,” the BBC4 documentary by actress Miriam Margoyles (“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” “Being Julia”), is released on DVD. Margoyles interviews Martha about the playful, inventive vocabulary of the mid-19th century American frontier.
July 14, 2010: A conversation heard on A Way with Words leads to a column in the Evansville, Ind., Courier-Press about “skywalkers.”
April 5, 2010: I was the featured guest on Wisconsin Public Radio‘s live call-in show, At Issue with Ben Merens, discussing regional English in America.
November 29, 2009: A Way with Words is the subject of a feature story in the San Diego Union-Tribune. National following for local “Words.”
September 25, 2009: I was quoted in the New York Times on the doggy origins of the word “adulation.” Inside The List.
April 15, 2009: I contributed to a discussion of recession-related words in the San Diego Union-Tribune. “In ‘toxic’ times, Americans take refuge in words.
Feb. 23, 2009: I talked with the Orange County Register about “linguistic inflation.” Our time: Beware of those robust, Styrofoam words.
Feb. 16, 2009: Travel magazine World Hum asked me and my radio partner Grant Barrett about regional American expressions. Regional American Words: Is That a Pork Steak in Your Pocket or Are You Just Happy to See Me?.
January 8, 2009: I discussed the annual “Banished Words List” in a television interview on San Diego’s Channel 6.
July 23, 2008: My radio partner Grant Barrett and I are featured on PRX Conversations ’08 talking about political slang. It can also be found on the Campaign Audio from PRX blog.
April 5, 2008: My book A Garden of Words is considered by a garden writer. Speaker has bumper crop of words, Indianapolis Star.
April 1, 2008: I was the special guest at the Indy Reads annual Alphabet Affair and benefit in Indianapolis on April 12th. Buzzin’ around town… Indianapolis Star.
March 1, 2008: My radio partner Grant Barrett and I and A Way with Words are profiled in an in-flight magazine. What’s That You Say? American Way magazine, PDF, 764K.
February 12, 2008: I was quoted by language columnist Nathan Bierma about the bloody origin of the word “shambles.” Word’s history now lies in shambles, Chicago Tribune.
December 4, 2007: I talked about grammatical questions of particular interest to physicians in the American Academy of Neurology’s podcast version of its journal, Neurology.
August 7, 2007: I am quoted by Chicago Tribune columnist Nathan Bierma on whether English really needs a new bit of punctuation called the “pomma point.”
July 6, 2007: My radio partner Grant Barrett and I make a special transatlantic appearance on BBC Radio Five‘s Up All Night. MP3, 57MB, 1:02:39.
February 21, 2007: Martha is quoted by Chicago Tribune columnist Nathan Bierma about the origin of dog-related expressions, such as “it’s raining cats and dogs.”
