Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWe are all rhetoricians now
We have fun with rhetoric and some commonly used rhetorical devices, including how we might be using them even when we don't realize it.
1 year, 8 months ago
These Names Have Snob Appeal
We look at some names of famous people that, when you pronounce them correctly, can let people know you're an expert... or a snob.
1 year, 8 months ago
Shakespeare: He made up a lot of words
This week, Kathy and Ross quiz Fletcher on a list of words that may or may not have been coined by Shakespeare. You might be surprised by which ones …
1 year, 8 months ago
British-isms
We look at why Americans love to talk like our friends from across the pond— or like to think that's what we're doing.
1 year, 9 months ago
The Good Kind of Stress
Today we're looking at sentence stress and how the meaning of a sentence can completely change depending on which words you emphasize.
1 year, 9 months ago
A message from You're Saying It Wrong
Ouch! Unfortunately, we won't have an episode this week, because even more unfortunately, one of us had an accident and sustained a not-insignificant…
1 year, 9 months ago
Return of the Confusables
We get back to one of our favorite topics: Words that sound a lot like other words but have totally different meanings.
1 year, 9 months ago
Weird Word Origins
We look at some words that we think are related to other words, but actually aren't. Except sometimes they are.
1 year, 10 months ago
Pretending to be proper
We look at some "rules" of the language that were mostly just made up so people could feel like they were speaking proper English.
1 year, 10 months ago
Sticky, tricky grammar moments
We run through some particularly confusing grammar mistakes and how sometimes we might think we’re saying one thing when we’re really saying another.
1 year, 10 months ago