Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Ambiguity of English (Is the Name of My Jazz Band)
This week, we're talking ambiguous words and ambiguous phrases– sometimes we think we know what we're saying and sometimes we're really wrong.
1 year, 6 months ago
It's a Dead Language, I Always Say
Latin may be dead, but we still use it every day. This week we look at some common Latin phrases and what they actually mean.
1 year, 6 months ago
Cranberry Morphemes
We know what a berry is, we know what a cranberry is, but what the heck is a "cran?" We enter the sometimes murky world of the cranberry morpheme...
1 year, 6 months ago
Final Exams
As we head into summer, we'll take a look back to see if we can remember what we've learned over the past year.
1 year, 6 months ago
The Defining Words of the Spelling Bee
After this year's thrilling spell-off in the National Spelling Bee, we try to tease out the definitions of some of the words that won the contest.
1 year, 7 months ago
The Oldest of Old Words
This week, we're talking about some of the very oldest words in the English language, and how little some of them have changed over thousands of year…
1 year, 7 months ago
Smooshed-up Words
We're looking at words that were made by smooshing together other words, but it all happened so long ago that we completely forgot about it.
1 year, 7 months ago
The Rheturn of Rhetoric
We're dipping back into common rhetorical devices today, and talking about how they can be used to win people to your side... or at least make them l…
1 year, 7 months ago
Ye Olde Fossil Words
We look at some very old words that used to mean something, but that we now only see in very specific instances.
1 year, 8 months ago
If I Were To Talk About The Subjunctive...
Some of us (Fletcher) can never keep straight what, exactly, the subjunctive is, so fortunately Kathy and Ross are here to remind us!
1 year, 8 months ago