The Language of Resilience: Words in a Warming World

Schedule

Tue Oct 28 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

South Burlington Public Library | South Burlington, VT

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Join the A Way With Words radio show and podcast Co-hosts Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett for this special event.
About this Event

Join the radio show and podcast Co-hosts Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett for this special event where they explore the words and phrases connected to climate change. Phoenix Books will be on site for book sales and signing after the program.

Banner Image Credit: Fabrice Florin, Wikimedia Commons


About the Speakers

Co-host/co-producer Martha Barnette is the author of reader-friendly books on word origins. She has a background in ancient Greek and Latin, studied Spanish in Costa Rica, and worked as a newspaper reporter for major metropolitan dailies. Raised in the South, she now lives in San Diego, where she’s often found hiking mountain trails and performing with an improv comedy troupe. She’s the author most recently of Friends with Words: Adventures in Languageland, about the joy of language and the power of words to connect us.

Co-host/co-producer Grant Barrett (he/him) is a US lexicographer and linguist specializing in slang and new words. He has helped produce dozens of dictionaries for Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and most recently as the head of lexicography for Dictionary.com, and has authored three books of his own. He’s a voracious reader, knows a fair amount of French and Spanish, and spent years working in the jargon-rich jungles of information technology and journalism. Though born and raised in Missouri, and having been a long-time resident of New York City, Grant now lives in San Diego, California, with his wife, also an editor, linguist, and lexicographer, and their son.

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South Burlington Public Library, 180 Market Street, South Burlington, United States

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