Rebecca Kruth
Rebecca Kruth is a reporter interning with Aspen Public Radio over the summer of 2013. Originally from Eaton Rapids, Michigan, Rebecca is thrilled to be spending her summer making radio in the mountains. Though she's always been a public radio fan, Rebecca explored several other career paths including teaching high school English before making her way to the airwaves. During her graduate studies at Michigan State University, Rebecca decided radio was where she needed to be and squeezed some journalism courses into her American Studies degree program. After graduation, she snagged internships on the news desk at WKAR, East Lansing and the arts and culture desk at WBEZ, Chicago. When she's not chasing stories, Rebecca enjoys cycling, photography, listening to This American Life and wandering around the country with her husband, James.
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Your challenge this week is to try and avoid using the construction "try and." Why, you ask? Because we get a lot of questions from listeners about this...
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Sometimes a not-so-great experience can be made just a bit better if you have an excellent slang phrase to describe it. We think "take the L" falls...
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Apparently, "in and of itself” is the source of some concern about redundancy. This phrase wasn’t actually on our radar until a listener brought it up...
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When someone asks you to “take a listen,” it’s usually meant as a friendly invitation. But not everyone wants to take a listen. Several listeners have...
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Consonant sounds like "sh" and "th" and "ch" have a reasonably secure place in our language. You’ll find them at the beginning, middle and end of many...
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Pronouns are on the front burner of language change at the moment. As such, we get a lot of questions about them. For example, a listener recently asked...
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The word “pique” recently piqued the interest of one of our listeners. Colin Williams wrote to us after seeing the phrase, "As the president's pique...
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The Rio Grande is certainly a grand river. But not everyone thinks it's grand enough to be called "river" twice, as in the Rio Grande River. In case you...
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Grammarians sometimes worry about whether you can count the things to which a noun refers. And no, we're not talking about "less" and "fewer."
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Have you ever heard of the "needs washed" construction? That's when the verb "need" is followed by a past participle like "washed" or "fixed" without ...