Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchGet Thee Behind Me, 2021! | YSIW
It's our annual airing of grievances, as we vent about the words we'd like to leave in the rear view mirror as we head into a new year. And fair warn…
4 years ago
The (Most Mispronounced) Words of the Year! | YSIW
We wrap up 2021 with a look at the most mispronounced words of the year-- we don't even know what some of these things are, let alone how to say them!
4 years ago
A Grab Bag of Confusion | YSIW
Prompted by some listener emails, we're returning to our bread and butter: words we accidentally use when we mean to use other words. It's confusable…
4 years, 1 month ago
Medial Cluster Reduction! | YSIW
Medial cluster what now?? Come on, you know you want to hear this. It's something you're doing basically all the time...
4 years, 1 month ago
Weird Origins of Everyday Phrases | YSIW
We won't turn a blind eye if you get caught red-handed trying to steal our thunder, because today we're digging into the sometimes surprising, usuall…
4 years, 2 months ago
Apostrophes? Who Needs 'Em?! | YSIW
After our discussion of plurals in the last episode, we got to thinking about all the trouble apostrophes cause us, and Ross proposes a rather extrem…
4 years, 2 months ago
Fun with plurals! | YSIW
All sorts of fun with plurals today: what we get wrong when we try to use Latin plurals, the rules of English plurals, pluralizing compound words... …
4 years, 3 months ago
You're (Still) Spelling It Wrong
We continue with our look at the most commonly misspelled words in the English language, as we dig into why it is we tend to spell them incorrectly, …
4 years, 3 months ago
You're Spelling It Wrong | YSIW
Kathy and Ross challenge Fletcher to a spelling bee, as they tackle some of the English language's most commonly misspelled words and Fletcher immedi…
4 years, 4 months ago
Pretentious Confusables | YSIW
Kathy, Ross & Fletcher dip back into their bag of commonly confused words with some particularly pretentious examples.
4 years, 4 months ago