Listener Feedback

NICK EICHER, HOST: Today is Friday, April 22nd. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Nick Eicher.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And I’m Mary Reichard. It’s time now for Listener Feedback.

We don’t have any corrections this month, but we’ll start with a gentle reproof from listener Bill Calwell. He called in from Seneca, South Carolina.

CALDWELL: Since moving to the south some 40 years ago, I’ve found something that bothers me more than fingernails across a chalkboard. I cringe each time I hear or read it. And recently I heard it from a reporter on The World and Everything in It, and I read it in WORLD Magazine. The first person, singular pronoun when used as an object is me. For example, he spoke to me. No one says, he spoke to I. So why do so many people say, He spoke to George Grant and I? I cringe to say it. I am using Mr. Grant in my example because I am confident he would never abuse the king’s English in this way. Thank you for letting me vent this pet peeve. And God’s blessings to you, and all of you at WORLD.

EICHER: Well, Bill. I hate to admit it, but we are guilty as charged. And we apologize! We will do our best to avoid raking our linguistic fingernails down your mental chalkboard in the future!

REICHARD: We do sometimes make grammatical or pronunciation errors, but we do try to get it right. Our next caller phoned in to say how much she appreciates that.

SCHMIDT: Hi, this is Helena Schmidt. I’m calling from Michigan. And I just wanted to commend you for that story about how you get pronunciations and clarifications on how to pronounce foreign-to-us words and names. As somebody who grew up with a very unpronounceable Finnish last name in Canada, I appreciate that you’ve made these efforts. So thank you so much, and I truly appreciate hearing your news every day as I’m driving into work.

EICHER: I fancy myself an aficionado of accents and I picked out your Canadian accent right away. Thanks for sending in your comment.

Next we have a call from Mikaela Skelton, who lives in Hickory, North Carolina.

SKELTON: I wanted to thank you guys for the excellent segment you did on April 13th about the mail carrier. And I have to tell you just how crazy it was. Actually, I was listening to the episode the day before, and I thought to myself, man, I really wish they would do another one of those segments about what people do for their interesting jobs. And particularly I thought, I really wish they would interview a mail carrier because, personally, that’s someone I’ve always wanted to interview because I feel like they would have such an interesting story. And then, lo and behold, the next day you aired a segment about a mailman who delivers mail by boat. And, you know, I never would have known that there was someone out there who did that. So, thank you so much. I really enjoyed it.

REICHARD: Well, Mikaela, you were so right on there, might need to be careful what you ask for. You might just get it again! And speaking of things we’re enjoying—Lawless! Episode 3.5 dropped yesterday on the Lawless feed. 3.5?!

EICHER: Yes, 3.5! A little bonus. “The Point Five,” the episode within the episode, for just a little more context, we have some additional material that helps the story along. So this particular one—3.5—tells the story of the early legal battle in the Terri Schaivo case. Not the one over her life, but the one over her medical care and how much it cost. It’s the case that really helped set the stage for the fight to keep Terri alive.

This is a really good episode, gives some more backstory to the case.

REICHARD: But Lawless isn’t our only podcast dropping new episodes. We have another season of Listening In launching tomorrow! Several of you have written over the last few months to ask about this. And we are happy to report that host Warren Smith is back for Season 10 with fourteen new interviews. And he’s talking to some really interesting people this season. Tony Evans, Andy Stanley, and Jerry Jenkins—just to name a few. You’ll find each new episode on the Listening In feed every Friday.

EICHER: And just like Lawless and all our other podcasts, you can find Listening In wherever you get your podcasts. If you’re a new listener and would like to see a full list of all our other programs, visit wng.org/podcasts.

REICHARD: Alright, we have time for one more call today. We’ll let Susan Sellers from Sun City, Arizona, have the last word.

SELLERS: I just wanted to say, Myrna Brown, I love you. Your heart comes through so beautifully in your stories and the questions you ask, the scriptures you share at the end of the program. And I often turn to my husband and say, I just love Myrna. And I wanted you to know that. Thank you, dear sister.

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