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You're Saying It Wrong — 206 episodes
Red Flags
Canadian English [ENCORE]
Back to School!
Mailbag Day!
An (ahem) Odyssey Through Ancient Greek
It's Summertime, and the Etymology is... Questionable [ENCORE]
Heading Down South
Technically Speaking
Getting Your House in Order
Technical Difficulties
Congrats, Grads!
More Unknown Knowns
Meh, Duh, D'oh, and Other Communicative Grunts
Common Grammar Controversies
How Tiny Differences Can Make a Huge... Difference
A Lowdown Dirty Spelling Quiz (Part 2)
A Lowdown Dirty Spelling Quiz
Cymraeg
Phonotactics!
What's in a Name?
[Encore] Where Are the Beeves?
Euphemisms
If We Knew You Were Comin' We'd've Baked a Cake
Register and Power
Broadening Our Horizons
Beginnings and Endings
Banished and Un-Banished Words
Banish These Words! (Some of them... at least for a little while)
Valentine's Day, When Our Thoughts Turn to Lufu
[Re]Bracketing
Chances Are... You're Spelling It Wrong
It's a Cold One Out There!
Either/Or
Feeling French (and Fancy)
The 2025 Words of the Year
Let's See What Sticks
Anachronyms
A Plethora of Plurals! (Encore)
Abbrs.
Mailbag Day!
It's a Thanksgiving Feast!
Grab Bag Day!
Going for Gold on the SAT
Frankenwords
It's Spooky Season!
More Weird Word Origins
Getting a Little Too Fancy
Pet Peeve-a-Palooza! (Part 2)
Pet Peeve-a-Palooza! (Part 1)
Calques
Getting an F on the SAT
A message from You're Saying It Wrong
Irish Names Are My Pet Piamh
An E-Prime Cut of Beef
In the Heighths
Petty Pet Peeves for Persnickety Pedants
The Graham Cracker Rule of 'Those Ones'
The Secret of -nym
It's Summertime, and the Etymology is... Questionable
American History Needs a Little Copy Editing
Suffix Fight!
The Debatables
Dislocate Your Syntax, Not Your Shoulder
Let's Take a Look in the Ol' Grab Bag...
I, For One, Do Not Welcome Our Robot Overlords
Pet Peeves, Oxymorons, and Other Unusual Animals
Colorless Green Mailbags Sleep Furiously
The Spell-a-Thon From Hell-a-Thon (Part 2)
The Spell-a-Thon From Hell-a-Thon (Part 1)
Who Gets Credit, Anyway?
We're Gonna Party Like It's 1985
Tulip Mania!
Where Are the Beeves?
The Letter of the Day is E!
Spring Has Sprung!
We're looking to the past
Happy 200!
Let's Get Fancy
Mailbag Day!
Enough With the Latin Already!
Getting a D on the SAT
We'll Never Give You the Cold Shoulder
Canadian English
The Norman Conquest of the English Language
Idioms: They're Not Rocket Science
Get These Words Outta Here!
Getting a C on the SAT
The Words of 2024
A Plethora of Plurals!
Is This Socially Acceptable??
Grab-bag Day
It's All Relative
ENCORE: These Names Have Snob Appeal
Getting a B on the SAT
A Little Stress Relief
Electoral Confusion
It's Getting Spoooooky Again
Italian Food!
Make No Mistake
The "Most" Words
Of Course! A Mere Trifle.
The Hidden World of Syllable Stress
Let's Hop Across the Pond
Getting an A on the SAT
We Simply Must Talk About Modal Verbs
Let's Hit the Beach
Now is the winter of our discontent made brat summer
Back-formations
Silly Rules (Or, the Unpredictability of the English Language)
The Etymology Olympics
Is This a Fossil? Or Just Some Dumb Old Rock?
The Ambiguity of English (Is the Name of My Jazz Band)
It's a Dead Language, I Always Say
Cranberry Morphemes
Final Exams
The Defining Words of the Spelling Bee
The Oldest of Old Words
Smooshed-up Words
The Rheturn of Rhetoric
Ye Olde Fossil Words
If I Were To Talk About The Subjunctive...
We are all rhetoricians now
These Names Have Snob Appeal
Shakespeare: He made up a lot of words
British-isms
The Good Kind of Stress
A message from You're Saying It Wrong
Return of the Confusables
Weird Word Origins
Pretending to be proper
Sticky, tricky grammar moments
Psilence!
The Latin Craze
Sneaky rules we don't know we follow
Hyperforeignisms and other times we just get too excited
Doublespeak!
Big News!
The Words of 2023
Deck the Halls!
Stop being so non-positive!
Escher sentences (and other nice ways of saying nothing)
Garden paths, crash blossoms, and other terrible ways of saying things
Autumn Mailbag!
The dictionary's newest words (part 2)
The dictionary's newest words
Grammar thingies
You're Spelling It Wrong 2023
The words of summer
Around the world in 30 minutes
You're telling me that's English?? (Part 2)
You're telling me that's English??
Let's do a grammar quiz!
Road trip!
That used to mean what??
We did it by (on?) accident!
Big words we actually kind of like
The twisted world of bureaucracy
In the hells of academia
Mailbag day!
That still doesn't mean what you think it means, part 2
That still doesn't mean what you think it means
The Staying Power of Slang
Searching for meaning in Gen Z slang
The most mispronounced words of 2022
Wait, THESE are the words of the year??
Will We Ever Learn?
Come Sit With Us a Spell
Get My Agentive Suffix On the Phone!
Happy Spooky Season
Secret Agentive Suffix Man! - YSIW
Mangrove Peat Accretion | YSIW
SAT Prep
Separated by a Common Language, Part 2
Separated by a Common Language
Wait... Is There a Difference? Part 2
Wait... Is There a Difference?
Happy 100!
Hold Tight!
Phrasal Verbs | YSIW
Join in the Celebration! (A Small Request)
You're spelling it wrong... again
A dangling modifier walks into a bar...
Dead Grammar Is? | YSIW
Genericide | YSIW
Trademark this!
We're Doing Some Verbing | YSIW
A Visit From Lady Mondegreen | YSIW
Encore: Place Name Showdown
A really, really, really hard quiz
We're in a Mood | YSIW
Driving Linguistic Change | YSIW
Get Thee Behind Me, 2021! | YSIW
The (Most Mispronounced) Words of the Year! | YSIW
A Grab Bag of Confusion | YSIW
Medial Cluster Reduction! | YSIW
Weird Origins of Everyday Phrases | YSIW
Apostrophes? Who Needs 'Em?! | YSIW
Fun with plurals! | YSIW
You're (Still) Spelling It Wrong
You're Spelling It Wrong | YSIW
Pretentious Confusables | YSIW
It's Time To Execute The Contronym Discussion | YSIW
Sanction? Oversight? Let's Have Fun With Some Contronyms | YSIW
Flapdoodle Words (Part 2: The Sequel) | YSIW
Flapdoodle Words
Some Good News! (And a Little Warning.)