Commentator Nan Graham
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Some of the expressions we use today were born of war a hundred and fifty years ago. Commentator Nan Graham explores some language and idioms which survived not only the civil war but the century and a half since.
Nan Graham is the author of two collections of WHQR commentaries, "Turn South at the Next Magnolia," and "In a Magnolia Minute." Her website is nangraham.com.