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Words for Granted - An etymology and linguistics podcast — 133 episodes
How Do New Words Get Added to the Dictionary? | Interview with Fiona McPherson
A 5,000 Year History of Punctuation: Interview with Florence Hazrat
The Oxford Comma Debate: Interview with Jay Stookesbery
The Simplified Spelling Movement: Interview with Gabe Henry
The Proto-Indo-European Puzzle: Interview with Laura Spinney
The Science and History of English Accents: Interview with Valerie Fridland
The History of the Alphabet: Interview with Danny Bate
Lessons on Language with the Grammar Girl (Mignon Fogerty)
The Marvels of Translation: Interview with Keith Khan-Harris
The Power (and Omnipresence) of Rhetoric: Interview with Guy Doza
A Defense of "Bad" English: Interview with Valerie Fridland
Learning New Languages: Interview with Rob Paterson
Combatting Bias in Linguistic AI: Interview with Courtney Napoles
Origins of Place Names: Interview with Duncan Madden
Grammatical Gender: Interview with Danny Bate
Episode 109: Trivia
African American English: Interview w/ Tracey Weldon
Episode 108: Understand
Episode 107: World
Deciphering Ancient Scripts: Interview with Silvia Ferrara
Episode 106: Grotesque
Episode 105: Idiot
Episode 104: Genius
Episode 103: Run Amok
Episode 102: Hyperbola/Hyperbole & Ellipse/Ellipsis
Episode 101: Parabola/Parable
Episode 100: Google
Episode 99: Average
Why Is English Highly Irregular? (Interview with Arika Okrent)
Episode 98: Lost Letters: Long s (ſ) and Ampersand (&)
Episode 97: Lost Letters: Ash (Æ, æ) and Ethel (Œ, œ)
Nine Nasty Words (Interview with John McWhorter) [EXPLICIT]
Episode 96: Lost Letters: Wynn (Ƿ), Insular G (ᵹ), Yogh (Ȝ)
Episode 95: Lost Letters: Eth and Thorn (Ð,ð and Þ, þ)
Episode 94: The Lost Letters of the English Alphabet (Overview)
Episode 93: Pasta
Episode 92: Meals (Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner)
Interview with Tim Brookes, founder of Endangered Alphabets
Episode 91: Artichoke
Episode 90: Apple
Episode 89: Cheese
Episode 88: Egg
Proto Indo-Europeans with Kevin Stroud of The History of English Podcast
Episode 87: Dead Ringer
Episode 86: Red Herring
Episode 85: The Proof Is in the Pudding
Interview with Simon Horobin, Author of "Bagels, Bumf, and Buses"
Episode 84: Break a Leg
Episode 83: Apple of the Eye
Episode 82: In a Pickle
Episode 81: Idioms (General Overview)
Episode 80: Cannibal
Episode 79: Philistine
Episode 78: Bohemian
Episode 77: Gothic
Interview with Steve Kaufmann, Polyglot & Co-founder of LingQ
Episode 76: Wife
Episode 75: Grandmother/Grandfather
Episode 74: Sibling
Episode 73: Papa/Dada/Father
Episode 72: Mama/Mom
Episode 71: Noah Webster's Dictionary
Episode 70: Noah Webster (Early Works and Spelling Reforms)
Episode 69: OK
Episode 68: Yankee
Episode 67: The American Pronunciation of R (Rhoticity)
Episode 66: The Emergence of the American Lexicon
Interview with Lynne Murphy, Author of "The Prodigal Tongue"
Episode 65: Dialect vs. Language
Episode 64: France
Episode 63: Turkey
Episode 62: Cincinnati
Episode 61: International Names of Germany
Episode 60: Wales
Episode 59: Proper Place Names (General Overview)
Episode 58: Gymnasium
Episode 57: Category
Episode 56: Apology
Episode 55: Sophisticated
Episode 54: Philosophy
Episode 53: They
Episode 52: Linguistic Subjectification (Very, Really, Literally, etc.)
Episode 51: The
Interview with Steve Guerra (The History of the Papacy Podcast)
Episode 50: -ly (Adverbial Suffix)
Episode 49: To Be
Episode 48: History of English Grammar (General Overview)
Episode 47: Secular
Episode 46: God (and His Biblical Names)
Episode 45: Hell
Episode 44: Letter J
Episode 43: Demon
Episode 42: Church
Episode 41: Thou
Episode 40: Biblical Etymology (General Overview)
Episode 39: Eleven/Twelve
Episode 38: Algebra/Algorithm
Episode 37: Chemistry
Episode 36: Serendipity
Episode 35: Arabic Loanwords in English
Episode 34: Saturday/Sunday
Episode 33: Thursday/Friday
Episode 32: Wednesday
Episode 31: Monday/Tuesday
Episode 30: Days of the Week (General Overview)
Episode 29: How Does a Single Root Word Produce So Many Derivatives?
Episode 28: Scene
Episode 27: Comedy
Episode 26: Tragedy
Episode 25: Tyrant
Episode 24: Ethnic Suffixes (-an, -ian, -ean, -ish, -ese, -i)
Episode 23: Filibuster
Episode 22: Candidate
Episode 21: Inauguration
Episode 20: Letter C
Episode 19: Tea
Episode 18: Culture
Episode 17: Two
Episode 16: Cologne
Episode 15: Sinister
Episode 14: Calqued Words
Episode 13: Beg the Question
Episode 12: Ostracize
Episode 11: Amateur
Episode 9 (Bonus Episode): Mouse (and Why Its Plural Form Is "Mice")
Episode 8: Cellular
Episode 7: Digital
Episode 6: Comfort
Episode 5: Meat
Episode 4 (Bonus Episode): Polysemous Words
Episode 3: Weird
Episode 2: Nice
Episode 1: Villain