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<title>Using art to preserve rare alphabets </title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (May 29, 2012) What started as a way to make unique Christmas gifts for family and friends has grown into a passion to admire and preserve some of the rarest writing systems in the world.  For the last few years, Burlington writer Tim Brookes has created handmade wood carvings in an attempt to help save alphabets at risk of vanishing.  Brookes is an accomplished author who directs the writing program at Champlain College.  While there are thousands of spoken languages worldwide, Brookes says there are fewer than a hundred alphabets, and many of them are threatened with extinction.Tim Brookes will take some of the carvings in his “Endangered Alphabets” art and literacy project on the road again this summer.  He spoke with Todd Moe about the reasons why written letters and symbols are disappearing, and his memorial to them. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/19893/20120529/using-art-to-preserve-rare-alphabets">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Call-in: A Few Words with Grant Barrett</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Apr 26, 2012) Grant Barrett, co-host of A Way With Words, heard Mondays at 1 pm on NCPR, was in town for the arts festival at SUNY Potsdam. He joined us on-air for an hour to take listener calls on word questions, linguistic oddities, and good talk about how we talk. Ellen Rocco hosts. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/19740/20120426/call-in-a-few-words-with-grant-barrett">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Mohawks seek recognition for WWII code talkers</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Mar 8, 2012) A Mohawk veterans group wants the federal government to recognize the contributions of “code talkers” during the D-Day invasion of Europe during World War Two.   The Navajo “code talkers” were the largest group of Native Americans during the 1940’s to use their language skills in the south Pacific against the Japanese.  Jeffrey Whelan, a member of the St. Regis Mohawk Veterans Affairs Committee, says many other tribes participated as &quot;code talkers&quot; during the war.  He says the St. Regis Mohawk Tribal Council has sent a letter of request to the U.S. Mint to develop a Congressional Medal for nine veterans at Akwesasne who used their native language to confuse the Germans. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/19457/20120308/mohawks-seek-recognition-for-wwii-code-talkers">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Natural Selections: Chipmunk language</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jan 12, 2012) Chipmunk, cluckmunk? Chipmunks and many animals have a variety of sounds used to express different things. Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager sample the vocabulary used by this common denizen of North Country woods and villages. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/19109/20120112/natural-selections-chipmunk-language">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>SUNY Plattsburgh celebrates international education, awareness</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Nov 16, 2011) SUNY Plattsburgh is celebrating International Education Week with a series of workshops, lectures, debates and the &quot;Night of Nations&quot; cultural showcase on Saturday. Todd Moe talks with Student Association president, PJ Shah, an international student from Nepal, about the lure of attending college in Plattsburgh. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/18773/20111116/suny-plattsburgh-celebrates-international-education-awareness">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>ESL classes in demand in North Country</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (May 15, 2008) Literacy of Northern New York is seeking volunteers to teach English as a second language classes.  The not-for-profit is trying to keep up with a growing number of military and academic spouses and farmworkers who want to learn English in Jefferson, Lewis, and St. Lawrence counties.  Deborah Tate runs the organization’s ESL program.  She told David Sommerstein the students come from all over the world.You can volunteer to be a tutor by calling 782-4270 in Jefferson and Lewis counties, and 265-0194 in St. Lawrence county. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/11392/20080515/esl-classes-in-demand-in-north-country">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Heard up North: Yupper! (&amp; Beaver Meadows)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (May 31, 2006) Our ongoing exploration of North Country dialect continues. Lynn Klein lives in the Lewis County Town of Leyden. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/7453/20060531/heard-up-north-yupper-amp-beaver-meadows">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2006 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Heard Up North: 3 Words (The Particular Language of the North Country, Cont.)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (May 11, 2006) Southern-born Steve Diehl says there are 3 words he hears in Antwerp that he&apos;s never heard anywhere else. He called up in response to our series about the Language of the North Country. He spoke with Gregory Warner. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/7352/20060511/heard-up-north-3-words-the-particular-language-of-the-north-country-cont">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2006 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>An Objection to the &quot;F-word&quot;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Oct 10, 2005) As we’re told, English is a wonderfully elastic language.  It’s colorful, inclusive, and in a state of constant change.  But some changes are less welcome than others.  Commentator Paul Willcott has an issue with the expanding use of a particular bit of profanity. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/6284/20051010/an-objection-to-the-quot-f-word-quot">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Book: Collateral Language, A User&apos;s Guide to America&apos;s New War</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (May 24, 2002) Martha Foley talks with John Collins and Ross Glover, two St. Lawrence University professors, who are editors of a new book that examines the meanings of post September 11th language. Highly charged terms that saturate news broadcasts and everyday conversation. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/975/20020524/book-collateral-language-a-user-apos-s-guide-to-america-apos-s-new-war">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2002 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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