Kathryn & Ross Petras brother and sister writing team

Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York

Kathryn and Ross Petras are a brother and sister writing team. authors of many word-oriented books like New York Times bestseller You’re Saying It Wrong. Or their newest book, A History of the World Through Body Parts: The Stories Behind the Organs, Appendages, Digits, and the Like Attached to (or Detached from) Famous Bodies. The duo has wrtten a myriad of books, which have received the attention of, or have been featured in, diverse media outlets including the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, Bustle, the Atlantic Monthly, the London Times, CNBC, and McSweeney’s. Join us for a discussion around words. Have you ever wondered about the correct pronunciation of a word you use all the time. Are there words that you think you’re hearing people mispronounce or misuse all the time? In this installment of “Leonard Lopate at Large” on WBAI, Kathryn and Ross Petras, take your questions about this crazy thing we call the English language.