" I am a word nerd. I like to look up words in my American Heritage Dictionary, see the words for the definitions, what the earlier forms of the word were, and the other words to which a words is related. The dictionary has the heft and thin, crinkly pages of a Wisdom Book, but like all Wisdom Books it was written by humans, most of them white males, so when deep wisdom seems to rise out of it, youâre really pulling the wisdom from your own experience. ... "
Transcript: AuthorNancyCasey.com/wordnerd/
Music by Kevin MacLeod
date-stamped 9-10-12, but material is not date-specific