EPISODE · Jun 17, 2026 · 3 MIN
Speedy’s Shocking Dictionary Secret! 📕⛓️ The Murderer Who Secretly Wrote The English Language!
from Si, Lana & The Breakfast Club · host rova | More FM
This might be the darkest trivia history ever brought into the studio... 😳🤯 Speedy takes the reins for this edition of That’s Slightly Interesting, delivering a mind-blowing history lesson on how words and their definitions actually made it into the modern dictionary. While you might expect it to be the work of stuffy academics, Speedy reveals the dark truth: a massive chunk of our everyday language was painstakingly compiled by a former soldier suffering from severe PTSD. The catch? He was writing thousands of definitions from inside a prison cell after committing an absolute murder! Simon, Lana, and Bondy are left completely stunned by this wild, historical true-crime twist. Love the show? Rate us 5-stars on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, and follow Si, Lana & The Breakfast Club on rova so you never miss an episode of our award-winning show!
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Speedy shares a shocking edition of That's Slightly Interesting, revealing that many of the original dictionary definitions were written by a former soldier with PTSD who was serving time in prison for murder.
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