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Martha Barnette

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Co-host, “A Way with Words” public radio show USA TODAY bestselling author, FRIENDS WITH WORDS: ADVENTURES IN LANGUAGELAND marthabarnette.com #etymology #writing #books #words @wayword

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Listen in and nerd out! Lots of fun chatting about words and wonderful books 🙂📚

04.12.2025 21:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Great time sharing the joy of language with Arik and his listeners!

03.12.2025 19:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #156: Martha Barnette "If you have deep knowledge of a subject and want to share it widely, consider framing it within stories from your life."

Fun chat about memoir and hypnagogic inspiration with @saribotton.bsky.social (“Hypnagogic”? Hint: It’s a great excuse for a nap! 😁)
#memoir #writersofbluesky #amwriting #readinglist #bookchat

28.11.2025 17:16 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

As you should! 👊🏼

26.11.2025 04:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wow. Devastating. Thank you so much for posting.

22.11.2025 16:12 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Huge congratulations!!!

12.11.2025 22:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Tune in our show this weekend for a first mention of Second Mentions! 😉

12.11.2025 21:41 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks! I’m as surprised as anyone, but will take it. :)

11.11.2025 23:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
Cover of Friends with Words: Adventures in Languageland by Martha Barnette, plus the USA TODAY Best-Selling Booklist badge

Cover of Friends with Words: Adventures in Languageland by Martha Barnette, plus the USA TODAY Best-Selling Booklist badge

Well, THAT’s a nice little bit of good news amid all the other mishegoss! Friends with Words made USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Booklist last week. Huzzah!

11.11.2025 22:37 — 👍 12    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

OMG! This is awful!

11.11.2025 02:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Hard agree about the Southern Fest! Had a wonderful time at my sesh with Stefan Fatsis and Z Z Packer, and loved being able to stroll over to the No Kings march, too.

10.11.2025 20:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

OMG, I would totally watch that trivia night! What a show!

04.11.2025 13:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Dang! Why am I out of town??

31.10.2025 05:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Taking my own damn escalator ride! See y’all tonight in Lexington!

30.10.2025 18:07 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Word Nerdery alert: Come peep us at the South Burlington Library in VT tonight!

28.10.2025 18:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Koax, koax!!!

19.10.2025 02:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Susan Stamberg, a Longtime Voice of NPR, Is Dead at 87

What a light, what a life. 💔

16.10.2025 23:15 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Agreed!

14.10.2025 23:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hey, book lovers in the South! I’ll be there this weekend, in conversation with @stefanfatsis.bsky.social to talk about his new book and mine. Join us! #friendswithwords 📚

13.10.2025 13:37 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Louavull

08.10.2025 22:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Agree! Also cool to boldly split infinitives. These “rules” are attempts by 17th & 18th c. self-appointed grammarians to fit the swollen feet of English into the tight shoes of Latin syntax.

07.10.2025 01:00 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

My progressive Southern Baptist minister (yes, there are still some out there!) dad would have LOVED this book! Thank you!

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27.09.2025 19:44 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Gray tabby kitten with arm extended

Gray tabby kitten with arm extended

… And them’s mah beans!

27.09.2025 19:12 — 👍 19    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you, Mignon!

27.09.2025 14:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I somehow missed “groksucker” until just now.

25.09.2025 18:07 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Do you speak Sylheti? Tamajaght? Klingon? Inside the Festival for Endangered Languages Every two weeks, a language is lost – and by the end of the century, half of the world’s 7,000 tongues could have vanished. We meet the artist using eyeliner and chokeberries to rescue everything from...
23.09.2025 22:45 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Looking forward to chatting with Spain’s largest English speaking talk radio station shortly!

22.09.2025 13:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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At the library | Hot Springs Sentinel Record Top 5 requests

My book makes this Arkansas library’s “Most Requested” list. Yay #libraries and #books! 📚👓

19.09.2025 20:28 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Martha Barnette on Words, Teaching, and Her New Book - WORT-FM 89.9 Martha Barnette joins the 8 O’Clock Buzz to discuss her new book Friends with Words, her radio show A Way with Words, and why language matters.

Super-fun interview on WORT-FM about my mom, playing the Pink Panther theme, how Ritalin was named, and my upcoming appearance in Madison, Wisconsin, on Oct. 26! www.wortfm.org/martha-barne...

16.09.2025 17:21 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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