A Way with Words: National Public Radio

100^th review and I am coming out of the closet for this one.
I am a total dork and like dorky things such as the radio show
«A Way with Words».
Where else can I find the origin of the word «frontin”(1)?
To err is human; To «air» is mispronouncing the word err.
To find out that throwing the word anymore on the end of a sentence,
constitutes a «positive» anymore vs. the standard version of anymore
designating something negative.
I am far from a grammar nazi. (YES! I now know *nazi, is supposed to capitalized, but I really don’t feel like the idiots that are such deserve the recognition of being categorized with a capital letter).
I mispronounce things on a daily basis, but that is the beauty of A Way with Words. I will say «brack-​fest» vs. breakfast, «crowns» are crayons etc etc… Linguistically we are all different and yet people still take umbrage with different dialects, pronunciations, and verbiage.
You might have a poutrage (2) over reading this, but in actuality it is more like an accismus (3).
1– A term used in the late 1800’s to signify an accomplice in a scam scheme.
2– acting outraged when you’re really not.
3– pretending refusal of something actually very much desirable.
God…
I am such a dork.