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For the last decade of his life, he reported on word histories on National Public Radio's Morning Edition, as an outgrowth of his series of books of etymologies, A Browser's Dictionary ( 1980 ), A Second Browser's Dictionary ( 1983 ) and Good Words to You ( posthumously published in 1987 ).

The weekly three-minute spot on etymology was called Word In Your Ear.

He also taught at the University of Florida.