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Frequently Asked Questions
49 episodes
Retten Up and Rett Up
When Did People Start Saying “Unthaw” to Mean “Thaw”?
Honyoks and Hunyokkers
Layers to Catch Meddlers
Dialect Adjectives that Mean Skewed or Crooked
Animal Kingdom
141 episodes
Just the Tips of the Hippo’s Ears
Root Beer Floats and Black Cows
When the Fish Roost in the Trees
An Oppossum or A Possum or Possibly Some Other Possum
Owl Jacket
Black American English
61 episodes
To Go Juking Around
Astorperious and Debubiate
Black Country Kitchen Ghosts
Trifling, Failing to do What Needs Doing
Doesn’t That Take the Cake!
Book Recommendations
77 episodes
The Democratic Chaos of Language vs. the Curated Precision of Science
Not TB or Not TB, Let’s Not TB
A Rough Slog Through to Our Tough English Spelling
Receiving Blankets, Stretched Beneath Stars
Hurry and Scurry and Flurry and Worry
British English
111 episodes
Mushers Have the London Knowledge
Does a Binfluencer Have a Binsta?
Safe as Houses (Except One of Straw or Sticks?)
Send to Coventry
Away Your Bun
Food and Meals
299 episodes
Winn-Dixie’s Mid-Filet Parsley Runners
So…A Button on Your Underwear, Ice Cube, and Tuna
Keep the Car Between the Mustard and the Mayo
That Burns My Onions!
Why Is “Vegetarian” a Concept That Escapes Some People?
French
291 episodes
Open Your Budget
Minicast Bonus: Picketwire
Chiffarobe
Why the -kansas Part of Arkansas Is Pronounced Differently Than the State of Kansas
Dilly-Dally, Dalliance
Gender and Language
34 episodes
How to Address a Child’s Nonbinary Partner
Mixing Up He and She in English as a Non-Native Speaker
Gender Neutral Term for Nieces and Nephews
Wigging in Stunts
Singular “They” and “Their” Take a Plural Verb
German
237 episodes
Verschlucken and Schlucken
Weltschmerz
Land With Your Bum in the Butter
Schmutz as a Verb
Mooksie, Mucksig, Mucksch
Greek
144 episodes
Woof, Arf, Ruff, or Bow Wow?
When You Don’t Finish What You… You Have Anapodotons
Enticing Siren Songs to Warning Siren Sounds
Beware the Epizooty!
Refect on This Monastic Lingo
Irish English and Gaelic
84 episodes
A Clabberhead Is Pulp-Brained
Origin of Potatoes and Point, When You Fail to Afford the Food So You Fantasize the Flavor
Is “Murphy’s Law” A Slur Against the Irish?
Uncertain Irish: Neamhchinnte
Omadhauns, Amadáns, Irish for Fools
Langston Hughes
4 episodes
Low Sick
To Take Tea for the Fever
Get One’s Habits On
Floating Opportunity
Language in Uniform
49 episodes
Gundecking, the Fabricating of Data and Paperwork
Kelly Days for Cops and Firefighters
A Hundred Feet of Chow Line
Your Mother Wears Combat Boots
Periscope Duty, Also Known as “Waltzing Matilda”
Latin
258 episodes
Different “Withs” In English, Latin, and French
Dehisce
Curfew From a Command to Cover Fires
Stilliform Means Drop-Shaped
Pronouncing In Situ
Mark Twain
11 episodes
As Dark as the Inside of A…
Mark Twain and Helen Keller
Mark Twain’s Writing Advice
Spondulix
Compliment Challenge
Multilingualism
21 episodes
Why Isn’t “Grocery” Ordinarily a Singular Food Item?
When Should You Use Foreign Pronunciations of Foreign Words Outside Their Original Language?
Loanwords and the Complicated Socio-Politico-Historical Relationships Between Languages
Dodo the Baby
Peanut Leg
Offensive and Taboo Language
38 episodes
Is “Murphy’s Law” A Slur Against the Irish?
English Doofus and German Doof
Narrowback Irish
Guaranteed Way to Curb Swearing at School: Moo Cow!
How Should a High School Teacher Handle Profanity in the Classroom?
Questions from Kids
59 episodes
Winding, Rhyming with Wending not Minding
Emote Control
Tummy Egg
Wearing a Train, at That Age?
School Butter
Shakespeare
53 episodes
Keeps Honor Bright
Salad Days, Green in Judgment
“Lay On, Macduff” Became “Lead On, Macduff!”
Hankering and Unbolted Cornmeal
Shakespeare’s Latin Education
Southern US English
12 episodes
When “Let Out” Means “Leave Out”
Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English
Where Does the American Southern Drawl Come From?
The Southern Stress on the First Syllable in Words like Cement and Police
Southern Expression “Hot Mess”
Spanish
440 episodes
When Christopher Columbus Lowers His Finger
Sweating Ink
Out Where God Lost His Galoshes
Minicast Bonus: Picketwire
Why Do Spanish-Speakers Adopt English Words?
We Need A Word
14 episodes
Words for Someone More than an Acquaintance, Not Quite a Friend
Trailing Grandparents
Smurm, The Little Smile You Give To Passing Strangers
Snow Falling Before the Autumn is Through
Abilene Paradox
Word Games
510 episodes
Misheard Through a Wall Word Quiz
Another Trying Take-Off Puzzle To Try
Intentional Misspelling Word Game
Defamiliarization Word Game
Letter Mitosis Word Game
Zora Neale Hurston
8 episodes
Astorperious and Debubiate
Die Bull-Headed
Lick the Calf Over
Get One’s Habits On
Jook Joint
Yiddish
27 episodes
Is Schmoozer Derogatory?
Schmutz as a Verb
Who Is Just Carrying Around Gold, Anyway?
Case Quarter in South Carolina
Fancy-Schmancy and Other Schm Reduplications
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