Every week at this time, the Voice of America tells about popular words and expressions used in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

This is Phil Murray with WORDS AND THEIR STORIES, a program in Special English on the Voice of America.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

KENNY CHESNEY: "Nashville helped shape me as an artist and as a person and my love for this city is beyond words.

VOA: special.2010.05.17

This recording shows how she continued to sing "Mack the Knife" when she did not remember the words.

VOA: special.2010.07.04

I'm Warren Scheer. Listen again next week at this time for another WORDS AND THEIR STORIES program on the Voice of America.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said this week that this was,in her words, "not an appropriate time to consider" the loan.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

This is Lena Reyna reading part of her winning poem, "The Weight of Words in Reverse."

VOA: special.2010.04.05

This was an estimate of the number of words a six-year-old should be able to read.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

This piece of basalt rock has been cut with words in the Akkadian language.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

This Special English Words and Their Stories program was written by Marilyn Rice Christiano.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

It's very sad,it's very sad. And I don't have words to describe this thing.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

This Special English program WORDS AND THEIR STORIES was written by Marilyn Rice Christiano.

VOA: special.2011.02.06

This VOA Special English program, WORDS AND THEIR STORIES, was written by Marilyn Christiano.

VOA: special.2011.05.01

Mister Rodney says he was surprised that this poet who came,in his words, from a very well-heeled New England existence, could move him, a Jamaican immigrant man.

VOA: special.2010.04.05