Word of the Week
S01 E21: Blarney
Season 1 Episode 21 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Don’t be flattered by this smooth-talking word.
On your journey to find the meaning of this word, you’ll visit a castle, meet its silver-tongued lord, kiss a rock and learn about an Irish legend.
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Word of the Week is a local public television program presented by WTVP
Word of the Week
S01 E21: Blarney
Season 1 Episode 21 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
On your journey to find the meaning of this word, you’ll visit a castle, meet its silver-tongued lord, kiss a rock and learn about an Irish legend.
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(upbeat instrumental music) - [Narrator] The word of the week is Blarney, which means skillful, flattery or nonsense, and is associated with a town, and a castle in County Cork, Ireland.
Some say Blarney came to mean flattery when Queen Elizabeth I, used it to describe the flowery, but insincere language of McCarthy Moore, the Lord of Blarney Castle.
It's a good story, but it may be nothing but Blarney.
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