The Word (radio) The Word (radio) The Word was a weekly half-hour radio programme on the BBC World Service about books and writers. Its final edition was in October 2008. Once a month its slot was taken over by "World Book Club", in which listeners submitted questions to a famous writer. Both programmes were presented by Harriett Gilbert. "World Book Club" continues to be broadcast once a month on Saturdays. "The Word" emerged from an earlier World Service book programme "Meridian Books" (which had several presenters, including Michael Rosen, Verity Sharp, and Rosemary Hartill,) as well as a poetry request programme, "Poems by
Latin obscenity from Latin "cauda/cōda" "tail". The Portuguese "penis", first attested in the 10th century, is thought to derive from a vulgar Latin word "*caraculum" "a little stake". The Italian "" has no obvious Latin ancestor. A number of different suggestions have been made for its origin, but none has yet gained general acceptance. The basic word for the testicles in Latin was "cōleī" (singular: "cōleus"). It appears to have had an alternative form *"cōleōnēs" (singular: "cōleō"), from which the Spanish "cojones" and other Romance forms are derived. (One late Latin source has the spelling "culiones"). The etymology of "cōleī" is obscure.