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Tamaimos interview me about No Winter Blues: Mission Iceland
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: 2009-11-07 19:10:21

There’s been quite a controversy raging in the Canary Islands about the Mission Iceland launch of the No Winter Blues marketing campaign which took place in Reykjavik between 19 – 22 October. I was in Iceland, as the UK member of the press group, reporting on the initiative. The campaign aims to promote the Canary Islands [...]


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Live From The Canarian Islands
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: 2009-11-02 11:31:15

Eve’s Salmagundi Club comes to us live and direct from Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, where it’s an impressive 90 degrees (London is shivering in damp grey mist). But doesn’t the eternal sunshine of paradise get a bit boring eventually? Not if you’ve brought some holiday reading! Eve and Richard gives us a run-down of the books they’ve consumed to date.


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2009-039 Soul Unsigned - Kiss 91.6 FM Sweden version
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: 2009-10-19 16:13:28

The weekly Soul Unsigned show is broadcast on various FM radio stations across europe, including Kiss 91.6 FM and MRS 90.5 in Sweden, Exite 93.1 on the Costa Blanca in Spain, and on QFM 94.3 in Tenerife in the Canary Islands. The show can also be heard in APCS radio out of Amsterdam and on Network 1 radio in the UK. Playlist (2009-039) Bashiyra MistifiedDonald Sheffey – At the partyWrapt Up Ft Mica Paris – Take it back (Pt 2)Ferry Ultra – Let me do my thangYolanda Johnson – When I see youDreemtime – Happy for fiveTourdefource – Little thingsRoman Andren – Amber ladyDestruments – Mysterious vibesD’Cheri – Like I doBrandon Kane – Shop aroundKatie Brien – Finally I really seeHarambe – Miss youLogic – Higher fire


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Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Gran Canaria Spain

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Michael Ramirez Open Sessions Jun29toJul5-Spasiva St Petersburg
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: 2009-06-28 18:52:50

Hi there everyone. Welcome to the Open Sessions, this week we have cool tracks to dance with you with artist how Club Fiesta, Kerri Chandler, Blaze, timmy vegas, Julie Macknight, Knee Deep, Shaft and Jamiroquai. The Award of Podcast Download city its for St. Petersburg Russia, Followed by Kolhn Germany followed by Granada Spain. Special mention for Tunnel Club how best house club at St. Petersburg. Our guest dj of today its from Galicia, 100 Budas Resident dj and Loca FM Galicai resident deejay. A great dj and a better producer its... Dj. Titinho. (follow him) Michael Ramirez will be soon at Terraza Black Lounge - Canary Islands, Faro chill Art Tenerife, Bataplan Donosti, and +39 Sundown at Las Canteras beach at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. At least salutation to the people who make us an add at social networks. Facebook Veronica Jimenez Gran Canaria Spain, Isael Disla Domincan Republic, Ocio Las Palmas Magazine, Antonio Miguel Perez Las Palmas, DGroup Barcelona. Tuenti's friends Miguel Rico Granada Spain, Tony Reche Malaga Spain, Javier Aragoneses Madrid and Fer Garcia Fuenlabrada Spain. Myspace friends.. Elena Barcelona, Noclass Fashion, Roberto Granados Granada Spain, and Biofa Madrid. Podomatic Friends Alexander Cesar Sao Carlos SP, Dj Onix UK, Dj bojan NYC and Gary Revel Los Angeles CA USA If you want to contact us for shows email to factory4life@hotmail.com or +34600546404


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Inside Europe: The Inside Take on European Affairs
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: 2009-06-06 07:05:00

What now for GM Europe? - Soain gets tough on immigration - French film shows plight of illegal migrants - social media changes journalism - civil servants pay slashed in Latvia - Solidarity 20 years on - buskers of the world unite - Parisians open doors as B&Bs - secret police photos en vogue in PragueTune in to Inside Europe on the radio or sign up for the Inside Europe podcast! You can also download the program from the Web site. Will the new General Motors Europe survive the bankruptcy in Detroit?It was the biggest car-maker in the world for decades, but now General Motors has filed for bankruptcy and become the biggest corporate failure in US corporate history. Thousands of jobs are set to go and the future is more than uncertain for workers in the US and here in Europe.A €700m takeover deal to rescue GM Europe was confirmed in Berlin earlier this week after days of tortuous negotiations, speculation and false starts. The Canadian assembly firm Magna, the Russian Sberbank and GM employees will own 65% between them. But GM will retain the remaining 35% stake. So will the new GM Europe survive the bankruptcy in Detroit? That’s the question Rob Turner put earlier to Marcus Walker, industry analyst at the Wall Street Journal in Berlin. Spain gets tough on immigrantsSpain revealed this week that the number of foreigners living in the country has increased over the last year, with foreign nationals now accounting for 12 percent of the population.But the make-up has changed. Nowadays, Romanians are the largest foreign community. Yet several years ago, boats loaded with African immigrants were arriving almost every day on the shores of Spain's Canary Islands. Now, those boats have all but stopped coming. Spain's economy is in crisis, and the government has toughened its immigration policies. Jerome Socolovsky reports from Madrid.A new French film highlights the plight of immigrantsA dozen people trying to get from France to Britain nearly died a grisly death earlier this month when a truck driver found them hidden inside a tank just as he was about to fill it with sulphuric acid.The constant stream of illegal immigrants arriving in Calais, most of the from Southwest Asia and Africa, has been a source of tension between London and Paris and has stirred anger in the French Channel port itself. A new French film about the plight of the illegal migrants in Calais has put the government on the defensive and provoked a public outcry over a law that makes it a crime to help illegal migrants. Eleanor Beardsley sends this report. How social media is changing the face of journalismMost of us remember where we were when we heard the news of 9/11, or the fall of the Berlin Wall, or the assassination of President Kennedy. Chances are you were watching TV or listening to radio. But where will you be next time a major world event occurs?The rise of microblogging sites like Twitter combined with mobile internet access is changing the way we receive our news, and how fast we get really close to the action. It is about to change the face of journalism as well, as Lars Bevanger now reports from London.Public servants in Latvia face salary cutsThe Latvian parliament is looking at ways out of the financial crisis, which has hit the country hard. Authorities have forecast that the economy will shrink by 18 percent this year.Just this week, the prime minister rejected renewed suggestions that the country devalue its currency. But state employees won’t get away as lightly. One of the most hard-hitting measures in budget discussions is another overall salary cut for public sector employees. Many salaries were already cut just 6 months ago. That means, in effect incomes will drop by 50% or even more compared to the last year. But the government says there is no other way to tackle problems caused by an ever deepening recession. Artjoms Konohovs has been talking to public service employees in Riga about their present situation.Internal disputes threaten to dismantle the legacy of Solidarity in PolandThis week sees the twentieth anniversary of Poland’s first free elections won by the anti-communist movement Solidarity. But controversy is brewing because the Polish government has shifted ceremonies marking the victory from the Gdansk shipyard on the Baltic coast where Solidarity was born to the southern city of Krakow.The government is locked in a conflict with Solidarity over the future of the ailing shipyards, which were given a boost by the EU this week. Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said she was confident Gdansk would not have to return hundreds of millions of euros in illegal state aid. But twenty years after Solidarity’s original victory, not all workers who originally supported the movement have emerged as winners in Poland’s new free-market reality. Rafal Kiepuszewski looks at what’s happened to Solidarity.Buskers of the world uniteProfessional violinist David Juritz is urging aspiring and experienced musicians worldwide to take to the streets and busk for charity during the first annual world busk starting on Monday.Juritz is the founder of Musequality a UK-based charity that funds communal music projects for disadvantaged children in developing countries. As part of this event, he's also planning the biggest co-ordinated busk the world has ever seen, with musicians busking at noon on Sunday 14 June, wherever they are in the world. Musequality is asking everyone who plays a musical instrument or sings to come out to play and pledge their busk earnings to change young lives. Rob Turner spoke to David Juritz and asked him how many musicians he’s expecting to take to the streets.The bed and breakfast charm offensive in ParisBed and breakfasts make most people think of friendly accommodations in quaint rural villages. But they are also an option in large European capitals.In fact, the city of Paris is trying to convince its residents to open more of them. That’s right, the city known for its legendary rudeness wants to change its image and show a friendlier face. With times getting tougher, more and more Parisians are taking the plunge. Genevieve Oger has this report. The secret police files en vogue in PragueA new coffee-table book of black and white photography has just been published in the Czech Republic.But it’s a collection with a difference – all the pictures were taken surreptitiously by the secret police in the 1970s and ‘80s. The photographs are a unique document of life in Prague in the communist era – but do they in any sense qualify as art? Ian Willoughby reports.


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Open Sessions June 1 to 7 - Alohaaaaa ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡
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: 2009-06-01 20:05:26

Michael Ramirez Open Sessions returns with a cool funky disco house with artists in the tracklist how Jamie Lewis, Soydan, Bee Gees, Tod Terry, Cunnie Williams, Michael Jackson, Dr. Kucho, Alex Baratini and Earth Wind and Fire. Our Guest dj its Claude F from Oslo Norway - Mange TAkk Claude. Next Michael Ramirez Gigs June 06 - +39 - Las Canteras Beach - Canary Islands June 20 - On Beach Torremolinos - Malaga June 20 - Innova Club - Malaga June 27 - Black Lounge - Palmeras Golf Las Palmas POdcast City Award for Honolulu - Hawai Auckland - New Zeland Krasnojarsk - Russia Salutations to.... Lisa Shaw - Toronto, Ian Masulo - Barcelona, Pablo Capa - Las Palmas, Royal Lounge Bar Gijon, Adrian Peña - Cantabria, Cassagrande Cafe Lounge - Sevilla, Xavier Onassis - Washington, Stanley Clan - Illinois, Charlie Den - Mazdrid, Thanks to all- More info and bookigns factory4life@hotmail.com +34 600 546 404 - msn hispasat1d@hotmail.com


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Illegal immigration on the Canary Islands is dwindling
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: 2009-06-01 19:35:00

Fewer illegal immigrants from Africa are arriving on the Canary Islands as the Spanish economic crisis bites and border controls are tightened.


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Diego Barber (Soundcheck: Friday, 10 April 2009)
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: 2009-04-10 19:17:00

The Saharan Air Layer is a dry, warm wind that blows from North Africa to the Canary Islands, off the coast of Spain, the home country of jazz guitarist Diego Barber. That wind was an inspiration to Barber on his new album, "Calima." He joins us for a live performance in our studio.


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Shipping the shop
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: 2009-03-25 19:00:00

When Airmen deploy, they face many challenges. One unit out of RAF Lakenheath is facing a challenge rarely seen by others. SSgt Alana Ingram tells us how troops mobilized an entire shop-worth of equipment to the Canary Islands of Spain.


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Air Force training with a Spanish flavor
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: 2009-03-17 19:00:00

An Air Force fighter squadron out of Lakenheath, England, is training with the Spanish in the Canary Islands. SSgt Alana Ingram has the story.


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World Vision Report for 03/07/2009
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: 2009-03-07 08:00:00

This week on the World Vision Report ... Fear of war's violence pervades the lives of children in Gaza ... An update on a year of peace in Kenya ... A costly bash for the leader of a devastated country ... An explosion of drug violence is destroying lives in Mexico ... Despite the risks, West Africans keep sailing for the Canary Islands ... But life in Spain doesn't provide the economic opportunities one man thought it would ... A physician in China took a courageous and costly stand against AIDS ... Leslie Chang writes about young women who flock to factories in China's cities ... There's a surge in recession-inspired senior crime in Japan ... Laden sings "Time to Shine" in Jamaica ... One Jamaican man loves selling fruit, despite tough economic times.


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Reading the OED from A to Z - 13 Oct. 2008
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: 2008-10-13 16:04:00

Reading the OED from A to Z (minicast)Word nerd Ammon Shea quit his job as a furniture mover in New York City to spend an entire year reading the entire Oxford English Dictionary. The result, in addition to eyestrain, headaches, and skeptics' puzzlement, was Shea's new book, Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 pages. Martha talks about what he learned along the way.http://ammonshea.com/oed.htmlYears ago, I covered a story for a sports magazine about Tori Murden, a woman trying row a 23-foot boat across the ocean. She set out from the Canary Islands with four months' provisions...and little else: No motor, no sail, no support vessel traveling along with her.And after 81 days, and 2,962 lonely miles at sea, she reached her goal, becoming the first woman ever to row a boat across the Atlantic.But for Murden, the challenge of rowing an ocean was nothing compared to the struggle of trying to explain why she'd done it in the first place: Why endure crushing boredom, blazing heat, chilling rain, blisters, and backaches day after day - all in order to row a little boat from one continent to the next? Recently I thought of Murden while I was reading a book about, of all things, dictionaries. It's by Ammon Shea, and it's called...'Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages.'You see where I'm going here: When it comes to dictionaries, Shea is into extreme adventure. This book chronicles his quirky quest to scale the Mount Everest of lexicography: the great Oxford English Dictionary.Shea is besotted with words. In fact, he quit his job as a furniture mover in New York City in order to spend a whole year reading the OED. He writes that he did so to find out 'what words there are for things in the world that I had always thought unnamed.'And find them he did. Words like:Petrichor (PEH-trih-kerr). That's p-e-t-r-i-c-h-o-r. It means 'the pleasant smell of rain on the ground, especially after a dry spell.' You knew there should be a word for that, right?Or how about 'apricity'? That word denotes 'the warmth of the sun in winter.'Or how about 'balter,' 'to dance clumsily.' Now that's handy.Trudging though page after page, the author suffers headaches, eyestrain, and a growing ghastly pallor from long days reading in the basement of a New York. Fortunately for Shea, his girlfriend is a former lexicographer for Merriam-Webster - and, one assumes, an extraordinarily patient person.Shea's long march from A to Z is often exhilarating, sometimes numbing. His heart sinks upon realizing that the section of words starting with the prefix 'un-' -- as in 'unabandoned, unable' -- goes on for 451 pages. He write: 'By the time I've read one hundred pages I am near catatonic, bored out of my mind, and so listless I can't remember why I wanted to read any of this in the first place.'After pressing on through the letter U, Shea is rewarded with gems like velleity, which means 'a mere wish or desire for something without accompanying action or effort.' And zoilus. A zoilus is an 'envious critic.'As for the question 'Why?' Shea has a ready answer. He writes that he read the dictionary cover to cover because, quite simply: 'It was the most engrossing and enjoyable book I've ever read.' It's also why, after finishing the last page, he writes, he happily started over.And I thought I was a big word nerd.And now, I have to get back to some dictionary-diving myself.--Get your language question answered on the air! Call or write 24 hours a day: (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673, words@waywordradio.org, or visit our web site and discussion forums at http://waywordradio.org. Copyright 2008, Wayword LLC.


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Reading the OED from A to Z - 13 Oct. 2008
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: 2008-10-13 16:04:00

Reading the OED from A to Z (minicast)Word nerd Ammon Shea quit his job as a furniture mover in New York City to spend an entire year reading the entire Oxford English Dictionary. The result, in addition to eyestrain, headaches, and skeptics' puzzlement, was Shea's new book, Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 pages. Martha talks about what he learned along the way.http://ammonshea.com/oed.html Years ago, I covered a story for a sports magazine about Tori Murden, a woman trying row a 23-foot boat across the ocean. She set out from the Canary Islands with four months' provisions...and little else: No motor, no sail, no support vessel traveling along with her.And after 81 days, and 2,962 lonely miles at sea, she reached her goal, becoming the first woman ever to row a boat across the Atlantic.But for Murden, the challenge of rowing an ocean was nothing compared to the struggle of trying to explain why she'd done it in the first place: Why endure crushing boredom, blazing heat, chilling rain, blisters, and backaches day after day - all in order to row a little boat from one continent to the next? Recently I thought of Murden while I was reading a book about, of all things, dictionaries. It's by Ammon Shea, and it's called...'Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages.'You see where I'm going here: When it comes to dictionaries, Shea is into extreme adventure. This book chronicles his quirky quest to scale the Mount Everest of lexicography: the great Oxford English Dictionary.Shea is besotted with words. In fact, he quit his job as a furniture mover in New York City in order to spend a whole year reading the OED. He writes that he did so to find out 'what words there are for things in the world that I had always thought unnamed.' And find them he did. Words like:Petrichor (PEH-trih-kerr). That's p-e-t-r-i-c-h-o-r. It means 'the pleasant smell of rain on the ground, especially after a dry spell.' You knew there should be a word for that, right? Or how about 'apricity'? That word denotes 'the warmth of the sun in winter.'Or how about 'balter,' 'to dance clumsily.' Now that's handy.Trudging though page after page, the author suffers headaches, eyestrain, and a growing ghastly pallor from long days reading in the basement of a New York. Fortunately for Shea, his girlfriend is a former lexicographer for Merriam-Webster - and, one assumes, an extraordinarily patient person. Shea's long march from A to Z is often exhilarating, sometimes numbing. His heart sinks upon realizing that the section of words starting with the prefix 'un-' -- as in 'unabandoned, unable' -- goes on for 451 pages. He write: 'By the time I've read one hundred pages I am near catatonic, bored out of my mind, and so listless I can't remember why I wanted to read any of this in the first place.'After pressing on through the letter U, Shea is rewarded with gems like velleity, which means 'a mere wish or desire for something without accompanying action or effort.' And zoilus. A zoilus is an 'envious critic.' As for the question 'Why?' Shea has a ready answer. He writes that he read the dictionary cover to cover because, quite simply: 'It was the most engrossing and enjoyable book I've ever read.' It's also why, after finishing the last page, he writes, he happily started over. And I thought I was a big word nerd.And now, I have to get back to some dictionary-diving myself.--Get your language question answered on the air! Call or write 24 hours a day: (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673, words@waywordradio.org, or visit our web site and discussion forums at http://waywordradio.org. Copyright 2008, Wayword LLC.


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Reading the OED from A to Z - 13 Oct. 2008
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Reading the OED from A to Z (minicast)Word nerd Ammon Shea quit his job as a furniture mover in New York City to spend an entire year reading the entire Oxford English Dictionary. The result, in addition to eyestrain, headaches, and skeptics' puzzlement, was Shea's new book, Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 pages. Martha talks about what he learned along the way.http://ammonshea.com/oed.html Years ago, I covered a story for a sports magazine about Tori Murden, a woman trying row a 23-foot boat across the ocean. She set out from the Canary Islands with four months' provisions...and little else: No motor, no sail, no support vessel traveling along with her.And after 81 days, and 2,962 lonely miles at sea, she reached her goal, becoming the first woman ever to row a boat across the Atlantic.But for Murden, the challenge of rowing an ocean was nothing compared to the struggle of trying to explain why she'd done it in the first place: Why endure crushing boredom, blazing heat, chilling rain, blisters, and backaches day after day - all in order to row a little boat from one continent to the next? Recently I thought of Murden while I was reading a book about, of all things, dictionaries. It's by Ammon Shea, and it's called...'Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages.'You see where I'm going here: When it comes to dictionaries, Shea is into extreme adventure. This book chronicles his quirky quest to scale the Mount Everest of lexicography: the great Oxford English Dictionary.Shea is besotted with words. In fact, he quit his job as a furniture mover in New York City in order to spend a whole year reading the OED. He writes that he did so to find out 'what words there are for things in the world that I had always thought unnamed.' And find them he did. Words like:Petrichor (PEH-trih-kerr). That's p-e-t-r-i-c-h-o-r. It means 'the pleasant smell of rain on the ground, especially after a dry spell.' You knew there should be a word for that, right? Or how about 'apricity'? That word denotes 'the warmth of the sun in winter.'Or how about 'balter,' 'to dance clumsily.' Now that's handy.Trudging though page after page, the author suffers headaches, eyestrain, and a growing ghastly pallor from long days reading in the basement of a New York. Fortunately for Shea, his girlfriend is a former lexicographer for Merriam-Webster - and, one assumes, an extraordinarily patient person. Shea's long march from A to Z is often exhilarating, sometimes numbing. His heart sinks upon realizing that the section of words starting with the prefix 'un-' -- as in 'unabandoned, unable' -- goes on for 451 pages. He write: 'By the time I've read one hundred pages I am near catatonic, bored out of my mind, and so listless I can't remember why I wanted to read any of this in the first place.'After pressing on through the letter U, Shea is rewarded with gems like velleity, which means 'a mere wish or desire for something without accompanying action or effort.' And zoilus. A zoilus is an 'envious critic.' As for the question 'Why?' Shea has a ready answer. He writes that he read the dictionary cover to cover because, quite simply: 'It was the most engrossing and enjoyable book I've ever read.' It's also why, after finishing the last page, he writes, he happily started over. And I thought I was a big word nerd.And now, I have to get back to some dictionary-diving myself.--Get your language question answered on the air! Call or write 24 hours a day: (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673, words@waywordradio.org, or visit our web site and discussion forums at http://waywordradio.org. Copyright 2008, Wayword LLC.


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Reading the OED from A to Z - 13 Oct. 2008
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Reading the OED from A to Z (minicast)Word nerd Ammon Shea quit his job as a furniture mover in New York City to spend an entire year reading the entire Oxford English Dictionary. The result, in addition to eyestrain, headaches, and skeptics' puzzlement, was Shea's new book, Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 pages. Martha talks about what he learned along the way.http://ammonshea.com/oed.html Years ago, I covered a story for a sports magazine about Tori Murden, a woman trying row a 23-foot boat across the ocean. She set out from the Canary Islands with four months' provisions...and little else: No motor, no sail, no support vessel traveling along with her.And after 81 days, and 2,962 lonely miles at sea, she reached her goal, becoming the first woman ever to row a boat across the Atlantic.But for Murden, the challenge of rowing an ocean was nothing compared to the struggle of trying to explain why she'd done it in the first place: Why endure crushing boredom, blazing heat, chilling rain, blisters, and backaches day after day - all in order to row a little boat from one continent to the next? Recently I thought of Murden while I was reading a book about, of all things, dictionaries. It's by Ammon Shea, and it's called...'Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages.'You see where I'm going here: When it comes to dictionaries, Shea is into extreme adventure. This book chronicles his quirky quest to scale the Mount Everest of lexicography: the great Oxford English Dictionary.Shea is besotted with words. In fact, he quit his job as a furniture mover in New York City in order to spend a whole year reading the OED. He writes that he did so to find out 'what words there are for things in the world that I had always thought unnamed.' And find them he did. Words like:Petrichor (PEH-trih-kerr). That's p-e-t-r-i-c-h-o-r. It means 'the pleasant smell of rain on the ground, especially after a dry spell.' You knew there should be a word for that, right? Or how about 'apricity'? That word denotes 'the warmth of the sun in winter.'Or how about 'balter,' 'to dance clumsily.' Now that's handy.Trudging though page after page, the author suffers headaches, eyestrain, and a growing ghastly pallor from long days reading in the basement of a New York. Fortunately for Shea, his girlfriend is a former lexicographer for Merriam-Webster - and, one assumes, an extraordinarily patient person. Shea's long march from A to Z is often exhilarating, sometimes numbing. His heart sinks upon realizing that the section of words starting with the prefix 'un-' -- as in 'unabandoned, unable' -- goes on for 451 pages. He write: 'By the time I've read one hundred pages I am near catatonic, bored out of my mind, and so listless I can't remember why I wanted to read any of this in the first place.'After pressing on through the letter U, Shea is rewarded with gems like velleity, which means 'a mere wish or desire for something without accompanying action or effort.' And zoilus. A zoilus is an 'envious critic.' As for the question 'Why?' Shea has a ready answer. He writes that he read the dictionary cover to cover because, quite simply: 'It was the most engrossing and enjoyable book I've ever read.' It's also why, after finishing the last page, he writes, he happily started over. And I thought I was a big word nerd.And now, I have to get back to some dictionary-diving myself.--Get your language question answered on the air! Call or write 24 hours a day: (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673, words@waywordradio.org, or visit our web site and discussion forums at http://waywordradio.org. Copyright 2008, Wayword LLC.


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