A Way with Words

A Way with Words is an American weekly public radio program discussing the use of language (mainly American and Canadian English, with other languages earning more occasional mention) in everyday life, along with linguistics, lexicology and folk etymology from a pool of listener questions from weekly callers into the program, along with a weekly word game with quiz expert and comedian John Chaneski.

After five and a half years, Elster left the show and was replaced by journalist and writer Martha Barnette.

[4] On August 2, 2007, KPBS-FM announced it would stop production of A Way with Words, saying it did not have enough experience or manpower to distribute a weekly program across North America.

In September 2007, Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett, co-hosts of A Way with Words, along with the show's producer Stefanie Levine, announced the creation of Wayword, Inc., an independent production company that would continue series production.

Its distribution has since increased across the nation under this arrangement, from a quarter-million listens each week[5] to half a million.