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From: Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR)
Date: 20050109
Author:LIANE HANSEN

LIANE HANSEN
Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR)
01-09-2005
Analysis: Listeners' comments

Host: LIANE HANSEN
Time: 1:00-2:00 PM

LIANE HANSEN, host:

This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Liane Hansen with your letters.

A few weeks ago, we ran a short interview with Scott Kiesling, a linguist at the University of Pittsburgh, about the evolution of the word `dude.' For a short segment, it prompted plenty of thoughts from some of you.

Frank Norris, who describes himself as a survivor of a master's thesis on Arizona dude ranches, but now living in Alaska, wrote: `Throughout the history of the ...

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