On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Doug Salot wrote:
> There once was a daily or weekly vignette on NPR,
in which the host, named
> John Ciardi (pronounced CHARDY, tough I'm guessing at the spelling)
> presented the entymology of commonly used linguistic constructs like this
> example.
It is Ciardi. My favorite was the show where he discussed words like
"moron" and "idiot."