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The Word's Worth — 245 episodes

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Plug It, Mute It, or Hear It

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Alexei Navalny and the Secret List of Forbidden Words

3

And Yet It's Nevertheless, All the Same, After All

4

A Guide to Giving a Bribe in Russian

5

Who is Gulya and Why Do We Care About Her Nose?

6

Spitting, Eating Your Teeth and Other Weird Gestures

7

Take Your Pick: Mutiny, Coup, Uprising or Nothing

8

Wait - What Russian Month is This?

9

What's in a Name? With Russian Holidays - Everything

10

A Gathering of Witches, Dues, Herbs and Classmates

11

Buy a Brilliant and Applaud an Artist

12

Tricks of the Trade

13

Under the Mighty Oak I Sit, Stupidly

14

The Cat Cried and Ran By

15

Serving and Not Serving in the Military

16

Two Words, Three Letters and Ten Meanings

17

How a Saint Becomes a Sinner

18

Of Courtyards, Grifters and Days Off

19

Shame That is Cringeworthy

20

Of Ear Noodles and Maniacal Printers

21

Please Don't Hit on Me, Bug Me, or Harass Me

22

A Pocketful of Somethings

23

A Year of the Language of War

24

The Ears Have It

25

Travels, Trips and Tours

26

Starting Anew or Again or Freshly Baked

27

Mark My Words: How to Remember and Forget

28

Mark My Words: How to Remember and Forget [old]

29

The Hopeless Quest for Language Purity

30

Words of the Year 2022

31

Angry? Join the Zoo

32

Get Russian-Ready for Seasons Greetings

33

Russian Pandemonium Pop Quiz

34

The New Russian Revolutionary Language

35

To Err is Human in Every Language

36

Why is There a Dog in Your Email?

37

Гойда! They Shouted. Say What?

38

Newspeak for the Russian New Economic Policy

39

Newspeak in the New Russia

40

Good King... Who?

41

What's In a (Dog's) Name?

42

Take That, You Confusing Preposition!

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Annoying Russian Questions

44

All the World in One Russian Word

45

Warning: Do Not Say This in Russian

46

Chowing Down the Russian Way

47

The Russian Sedentary Diet

48

The Art of Russian Mumbling, Grumbling, and Babbling

49

Stop In, Go Behind and Lose Your Mind

50

Getting Stronger Every Day in Every Way

51

Thinking Outside the Box the Russian Way

52

Russian Gaffes, Goofs, and Assorted Blunders

53

How to Fail Spectacularly in Russian

54

On Wars, Ducks, Knocking and Anniversaries

55

The Russian Language of War

56

A Russian Sleeping Beauty

57

The Looming But Not Inevitable (Translation) Disaster

58

Getting a Bright Idea in Russian

59

A Russian Fig is Not a Fig

60

How Don't I Care? Let Me Count The Ways

61

Words of the Year 2021

62

Of Parasites, Felt Boots, and Garbage Words

63

How to Complain About Winter in Russian

64

When Pigs Fly in Russian

65

Let's Talk Turkey

66

The Russian Approach to Coming Closer

67

This is the Way We Roll in Russian

68

Who Is To Blame For Everything in Russian?

69

Neither Russian Fish nor Russian Fowl

70

Two Minuses Make a Plus in Russian

71

Drunk as a Skunk in Russia? Never!

72

In Russian, Too Much is Better Than Too Little

73

When Your Heart Speaks in Russian

74

The Road to Recovery in Russian

75

Of Snobs, Show-Offs, and Arrogant Jerks

76

Stuck-Up, High Maintenance and Oh So Demanding

77

Hazard a Guess on the Meaning of Азарт

78

Good and Bad Manners the Frenchified and Russian Way

79

Getting Married and/or Rejected in Russian

80

Clean Up Your Act the Russian Way

81

How to Survive a Russian Heat Wave

82

How to Interpret a President

83

The Many Faces of Живопырка

84

On, Near, About and Round About in Russian

85

Maybe I May Be But Probably I'm Not

86

No Way, No How, No Matter What

87

The No's Have It in Russian

88

Cleaning House the Russian Way

89

My Sweet Little Buggie-Wuggie

90

The Monster Under the Bed

91

Singin' in the Rain the Russian Way

92

Procrastinating the Russian Way

93

Watch What You Call That Old Woman

94

Of Men, Galoshes and Horseradish

95

All That Glitters is Russian Gold

96

The Language of UnFreedom from the Gulag

97

Two Hundred More Ways to Get Russian Wrong

98

Insurrection and Sedition in Russian Translation

99

'Twas the Night Before Christmas, Moscow 2020

100

2020 Words of the Year

101

All in a Day's Work in Russian

102

The Borshch Battles

103

Confusing Coffee and Bountiful Behinds in Russian

104

Getting the Electoral College Right in Russian

105

It's Time to Take a Stand in Russian

106

Everything Has a Price in Russian

107

The With, By, From, Per, About Preposition

108

Fast as a Russian Fly

109

The Fruit of Our Language Labor

110

The Giant Saber-Toothed Grasshopper and Other Endangered Species

111

Muttering and Grousing the Russian Way

112

Autumn Leaves Are Not Yet Falling

113

August's Holidays: Honey, Apples, Bread and Nuts

114

Please Don't Hurt My Feelings

115

You Gotta Have Heart

116

How to Protest, From A to Zip Tie Cuffs

117

When Not Enough is Way Too Much

118

Getting Out the Vote the Russian Way

119

Ten Ways to Be Tired in Russian

120

When Time and Place Meet in Russian

121

Flying Objects and Other Horrors of Russian

122

When a Russian Bum is Not a Bum

123

The Russian Dos of Don'ts

124

Shall We Zoom? I Zoom, Do You?

125

Russian Patience is a Virtue

126

Say, Where's That Quote From?

127

Easter and Eggs, Naughty and Nice

128

Black Swans and Russian Bird Lore

129

Cabin Fever in Russia? Never!

130

A Guide to Russian Stance Verbs

131

Telecommuting and Fist Bumps Russian Style

132

Starting the Presidency All Over Again

133

The Expat Russian Language Guide to Coronavirus

134

Breathing Out and Breathing In

135

The Russian Blahs

136

Fixing It Up the Russian Way

137

Shame On You!

138

50 Ways to Leave Your Government

139

The Key Words of 2019

140

Terms, Prerogatives and Matters of Taste

141

A Russian Holiday Party Primer

142

Merry Happy Holiday to You

143

Stand on the Right, Pass on the Left

144

Is Your Language Sordid and Gross?

145

Making a Fuss in Russian

146

Take a Mental Health Day in Russian

147

Russian Newspeak 2019

148

False Friends, Part 12

149

Breaking Wind the Russian Way

150

How Low Can You Go in Russian?

151

On Russian Time

152

Ranting the Russian Way

153

If I Were Queen of Translation Reviews

154

Those Nosy Russians

155

Russian Men in Black

156

One Russian Blueberry or Two?

157

For hedging your bets, Russian is divine

158

The Connotation Conundrum

159

On Your Russian Feet

160

Hit the Road, Jack, and Don't Come Back

161

Russian Sense and Sensibility

162

Happy Russia Day

163

Russian Magical Thinking

164

Getting Your Snark On in Russian

165

If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em

166

Becoming Oblomov

167

Take a Vacation, Russian Style

168

Happily Suffering While Worrying and Ignoring Insults

169

Don't Call Me That!

170

The Nerd's Guide to Russian Prepositions In and On

171

Let's Talk About Ukraine

172

Meet the Pupkins!

173

A Russian Boyfriend

174

Russian Boys Just Want to Have Fun

175

Stand By Your Russian What?

176

Pulling Strings for Fun and Profit

177

Baby, It's Cold Outside

178

The Secret of Russian Mysteries

179

Ode to a Preposition

180

No Brexit For Russia

181

Catastrophes, Geopolitical and Otherwise

182

Happy New Year From Your Leader

183

Russian Words of the Dreary Year

184

How To Dress Your Russian Holiday Tree

185

The Year of Living Toxically

186

Eat Your Grammar Spinach

187

Russian Wisdom and Wiseguys

188

How Sweet It Is in Russian

189

How Good is a Russian Not Bad?

190

What's the Story, Morning Glory?

191

Extreme Russian Grammar

192

Russian Autumn Fun

193

Of Meat and Men

194

Seventeen Moments, Seventeen Thousand Jokes

195

What Do They Say About Moscow?

196

Russian Chickens Get a Bad Rap

197

Russian Horseradish With a Real Kick

198

Falling For Cheburashka

199

What’s in a Russian Word? Just About Everything

200

Blowing Your Top the Russian Way

201

Let's Play in Russian

202

Muddling the Masses, Russian Style

203

Thanks For the (Linguistic) Memories

204

Moscow's Merchants, Malls, and Walls

205

Russia's Summer Folk Head Out to the Dacha

206

The Cranky Tourist's Russian Phrasebook

207

A Butterfly on the Football Field

208

Russian Grammar? Really?

209

The Strange Case of Russian Provocation

210

Why Is Russia Bombing Its Own City?

211

Putin's Bad Russian Conservatism

212

Putin's Language (R)Evolution

213

Russian Hell Hath No Fury

214

In Russian, Blame the Cat

215

Why Does a Russian Cat Weep?

216

Of Robes and Irresponsibility in Russian

217

The Bear Russian Truth

218

What Kind of Leader is Vladimir Putin?

219

Theresa May Ate What?

220

Harassment Russian Style

221

An Ode to У

222

Who's Sorry Now?

223

Be My Russian Valentine

224

I Get a (Russian) Thrill Out of You

225

(Not) Speaking Ill of the Dead in Russian

226

What Did Trump Call Them? What's the Russian for That?

227

Scary and Weird Russian Slang

228

Russian Words of the Year for 2017

229

A Modern Russian Christmas Carol

230

More Fun With Russian Measures

231

Measuring Up the Old Russian Way

232

The Winds of Russian Change

233

The Ungrateful Russian Wretch

234

A Very Russian Mishmash

235

The Soviet Language Revolution

236

Sounding Smart in Russian — Sometimes

237

Love as a Russian Chemistry Experiment

238

Coming Unglued in Russian

239

25 Russian Words For 25 Years: Part Two

240

25 Russian Words For 25 Years: Part One

241

That's a Russian Laugh and a Half

242

The Sweet Smell of Russian Money

243

The Russian Shame Game

244

Russian Grammar Friday

245

What Is the Word’s Worth?