Disc 1. Winning words, banished words -- Life of a word, from birth ot death -- disc 2. Human hands behind dictionaries -- Treasure houses, theft, and traps -- disc 3. Yarn and clues -- new word meanings -- Smog, mob, bling -- new words -- disc 4. "Often" versus "offen" -- pronunciation -- Fighting over zippers -- disc 5. Opening the early English word-hoard -- Safe and sound -- the French invasion -- disc 6. Magnifical dexterity -- Latin and learning -- Chutzpah to pajamas -- world borrowings -- disc 7. Pop/soda/coke divide -- Maths, wombats and Les bluejeans -- disc 8. Foot and pedestrian -- word cousins -- Desultory somersaults -- Latin roots -- disc 9. Analogous prologues -- Greek roots -- Tough stuff of English spelling -- disc 10. B in debt -- meddling in spelling -- Of mice, men and y'all -- disc 11. I'm good -- or am I well? -- How snuck sneaked in -- disc 12. Um, well, like, you know -- Wicked cool -- the irreverence of slang -- disc 13. Boy toys and bad eggs -- slang wordplay -- Spinster, bachelor, guy, dude -- disc 14. Firefighters and freshpersons -- A slam dunk -- the language of sports -- disc 15. Fooling around -- the language of love -- Gung ho -- the language of war -- disc 16. Fillibustering -- the language of politics -- LOL -- the language of the internet -- disc 17. #$@%! -- forbidden words -- Couldn't (or could) care less -- disc 18. Musquirt and other lexical gaps -- Playing fast and loose with words.