For no reason whatsoever, we look at some words that come from Homer's famous tale and Ancient Greek more generally.
Aug 1
32 min
We'll look at the surprising origins of some common summer-related words, phrases, and idioms.
Jul 25
29 min
We take a road trip to the U.S. South to look at some place names that have some pretty surprising pronunciations. Bless our hearts (in a good way)!
Jul 18
29 min
We take another shot at figuring out what's good and bad about the technical uses of common words.
Jul 11
30 min
We look at the confusing, but surprisingly intuitive, world of adjective and adverb order and how we can know what we're doing without knowing what we're doing.
Jul 4
30 min
This week, we look at the (sometimes huge) differences between the technical, specialized definitions of words, and what they mean to everybody else.
Jun 27
34 min
School's out, so we're celebrating all the new graduates by looking at the backgrounds of some graduation-related words.
Jun 20
31 min
We return to one of our favorite (and sometimes most confusing) topics: rules of English that we know instinctively, but that we have no idea we know.
Jun 13
31 min
Today we make a lot of noise by exploring nonverbal vocalizations: all those sounds that aren't words, exactly, but that still carry a lot of meaning.
Jun 6
30 min
To split infinitives or to not split them? (Ir)regardless, we'll dive into some everyday language arguments that get people all worked up.
May 30
30 min
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