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Some listener emails prompted Kathy and Ross to take a look at the idea that women are the real drivers of innovation in language.

It's our annual airing of grievances, as we vent about the words we'd like to leave in the rear view mirror as we head into a new year. And fair warning: we get pretty petty!

A short section of this interview aired on KMUW News prior to Amor Towles visit to Wichita in October. Here's the full conversation.

We wrap up 2021 with a look at the most mispronounced words of the year-- we don't even know what some of these things are, let alone how to say them!

Prompted by some listener emails, we're returning to our bread and butter: words we accidentally use when we mean to use other words. It's confusable time!

Medial cluster what now?? Come on, you know you want to hear this. It's something you're doing basically all the time...

Max Greenfield is taking on a new role... as an author. The actor recently published an illustrated book for kids, titled “I Don’t Want to Read This Book.” KMUW’s Beth Golay recently spoke with Greenfield about his book, which, for the record, she did want to read. Here’s their conversation on this week's Marginalia.

For this week's Marginalia, Beth Golay got some help from KMUW's resident Marvel expert, Hugo Phan. The two of them spoke with author Douglas Wolk about his book, "All the Marvels," for which Wolk read *all* of the Marvel superhero comics—more than 27,000 of them.

After our discussion of plurals in the last episode, we got to thinking about all the trouble apostrophes cause us, and Ross proposes a rather extreme solution.

Beth Golay speaks with Amy Koppelman about "A Mouthful of Air." First published 17 years ago, the book was re-released in anticipation of the movie, which was written and directed by Koppelman.