Rebecca Kruth
All Things Considered HostRebecca Kruth is the host of All Things Considered at Michigan Public. She also co-hosts Michigan Public's weekly language podcast That’s What They Say with English professor Anne Curzan.
After earning degrees in English and American Studies from Michigan State University, Kruth began her radio career as a newsroom intern at WKAR in East Lansing. She completed additional news internships at WBEZ Chicago and KAJX Aspen.
Kruth first came to Michigan Public in 2014 as a producer for Morning Edition. She served as a general assignment reporter and fill-in host before becoming the station’s full-time Weekend Edition host in 2016. She became the All Things Considered host in 2023.
When she’s not on the airwaves, Kruth enjoys hiking, Korean food and hunting for vinyl records with her husband James. She’s also Bruce Springsteen’s number one fan.
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There's competitive forensics, but there's also forensic medicine, forensic accounting, and forensic linguistics too.
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The word "deadpan" is on the rise, as multiple parts of speech. That "pan" is related to the historical expression “shut your pan."
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Not all of us use the word 'whenever' in exactly the same way, and people are noticing.
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It’s 100% true that people online are asking about sentences like, “I got an a hundred on the test.”
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The way some people use "resonate" doesn't resonate with all of our listeners.
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We can sweep the floor, sweep the board, sweep the stakes, sweep the series – and maybe it will even be called a "clean sweep."
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While you may not find “comfortability” in many standard dictionaries yet, it is out there in circulation with “comfortableness.”
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Sometimes we’re left in the lurch. It’s probably fair to say that most of us don’t know where that lurch is.
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It appears that some of those bad or uneasy feelings we may feel in the pit of our stomach have become a pit in our stomach.
