Welcome to the 45th episode of Random Fandom!
Hosted By: Joanna
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Just Joanna
My mom, Laurie, is busy settling into her new place, so I'm hosting the show solo this week. We'll be back to our regular format next week.

As always, thanks for listening!
- Joanna

"Live Earth" Recap...Sorta
I truly meant to listen to the "Live Earth" concerts, but despite my best intentions, I missed them. Listen to find out why.

Fantabulous Neologisms
I talk about Merriam-Webster's new word additions to their Collegiate Dictionary and wonder about the objections to those additions by some people.

Related:
"Neologism" Wikipedia entry
A Sample Glossary from Noah Webster's "A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language"

Resources for Linguaphiles:
A.Word.A.Day
WordCraft
The Word Detective
"The Word Nerds" podcast
Merriam-Webster's "Word of the Day" podcast

Music Credits
"The Presidents," by Jonathan Coulton
"Summer Days," by Dean

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