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Back to SearchThe 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.
2 years, 1 month 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…
2 years, 1 month 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.
2 years, 1 month 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.
2 years, 1 month 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.
2 years, 2 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.
2 years, 2 months ago
Psilence!
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…
2 years, 2 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 …
2 years, 2 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 …
2 years, 3 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…
2 years, 3 months ago