Podcast Episodes
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We run through a few of the many, many English words that contain silent letters and some of the baffling reasons we pronounce those words the way we…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Latin Craze
We dig into why certain words are spelled ridiculously thanks to a bunch of scholars a few hundred years ago who got a little too nutso about making …
1 year, 11 months ago
Sneaky rules we don't know we follow
Some of us like to be rule breakers, but here are a few rules of the English language we can’t help but follow. And we probably don’t even know they …
1 year, 11 months ago
Hyperforeignisms and other times we just get too excited
We look at what happens when we approach non-English words with a little too much gusto, and how exactly we should be saying foreign words so that we…
1 year, 11 months ago
Doublespeak!
We look at unconscious ways we follow the rules of English by doubling sounds and words, and how meanings of words can change when we say them twice.…
1 year, 11 months ago
Big News!
You’re Saying It Wrong is now more than just a podcast!
2 years ago
The Words of 2023
This week we rizz you up (did we say that right?) by looking at what dictionaries picked as the words of the year for 2023!
2 years ago
Deck the Halls!
We look at the origins of some holiday-related words, including a reindeer controversy and a little bird that's surprisingly rude.
2 years ago
Stop being so non-positive!
This week, we look at the official (?) rules of negativity in English.
2 years, 1 month ago
Escher sentences (and other nice ways of saying nothing)
Today we look at phrases that seem at first glance to mean something, but are actually complete nonsense.
2 years, 1 month ago