Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchShakespeare: 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 …
2 years, 5 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.
2 years, 5 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.
2 years, 6 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…
2 years, 6 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.
2 years, 6 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.
2 years, 6 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.
2 years, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 months ago