Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchA Lowdown Dirty Spelling Quiz
Kathy and Ross pull out all the stops to try to trick Fletcher with a new spelling quiz. Fletcher does his best to upset them.
1 day, 1 hour ago
Cymraeg
Kathy, Ross, and Fletcher try to tackle the Welsh language, with... questionable results. Look, we're all doing our best here.
1 week, 1 day ago
Phonotactics!
Think you don't know what phonotactics are? Even our youngest English speakers do! You might just not realize it...
2 weeks, 1 day ago
What's in a Name?
This week, Kathy and Ross challenge Fletcher to an epic eponym quiz, and somehow they detour again into an analysis of pavement. How? You'll have to …
3 weeks, 1 day ago
[Encore] Where Are the Beeves?
The plural of thief is thieves, so why isn't the plural of chief chieves? And as the old woman once said, where are the beeves??? On today's show, we…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
Euphemisms
We'll be happy to tell you what this episode is about just as soon as we get back from using the bathroom—I mean, the restroom—I mean, the washroom—I…
1 month ago
If We Knew You Were Comin' We'd've Baked a Cake
Today we address a couple of listener questions, including one about the Third Conditional (???), before moving on to a quiz about Middle English vs.…
1 month, 1 week ago
Register and Power
Today we have a wide-ranging discussion about the words we use, when we use them, and the enormous power they can have.
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Broadening Our Horizons
Sometimes words get a whole lot less specific over time, and sometimes people get really mad about that!
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Beginnings and Endings
We look at how a tiny little prefix or suffix can completely change the meaning of a word. Or how it could do nothing at all!
2 months ago