Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFood! Glorious Food! (Part 1) | YSIW
It's a cornucopia of delights! A feast for the... mouth? Ears? Whatever words are a feast for. We'll scarf down a Brazilian berry, a flaky French tre…
5 years, 1 month ago
When Bad Words... Turn Good! | YSIW
This time out we're going to get nice and cute and have a little fun with some words that were born on the wrong side of the tracks, but found the pa…
5 years, 2 months ago
Origin Stories | YSIW
Horse jumping, goats fighting hedgehogs, rude fruit-related gestures... today we look at some of the most surprising and exciting word origins we can…
5 years, 2 months ago
Egregious Errors: The Master Class
We're continuing on from the last episode's fun and games, but the difficulty is ramping up!
5 years, 3 months ago
Eight Egregious Errors | YSIW
Well, actually Nine Egregious Errors, but Eight looks better, and one of them isn't really THAT bad. We'll look at some of the most common language m…
5 years, 3 months ago
When Good Words Go Bad | YSIW
Find out what happens when perfectly nice words fall in with the wrong crowd...
5 years, 4 months ago
The Ambiguity Of 'OK' | YSIW
OK, the time has come to talk about OK, OK? OK!
5 years, 4 months ago
No, yeah! Yeah... no. | YSIW
They're just two small, simple words. But when you put them together... all bets are off.
5 years, 5 months ago
Haplology: Why We Drop Sounds |YSIW
"She was probly at interpetive dance class at the libry that Febuary fifteenth."No? No good? Try saying it out loud...
5 years, 5 months ago
50 Never Sounded Better | YSIW
It's our 50th podcast extravaganza! We'll talk about the current bête noire of the language world, "irregardless", as well as other redundancies and …
5 years, 6 months ago