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You're Saying It Wrong — 190 episodes

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Title
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A Lowdown Dirty Spelling Quiz

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Cymraeg

3

Phonotactics!

4

What's in a Name?

5

[Encore] Where Are the Beeves?

6

Euphemisms

7

If We Knew You Were Comin' We'd've Baked a Cake

8

Register and Power

9

Broadening Our Horizons

10

Beginnings and Endings

11

Banished and Un-Banished Words

12

Banish These Words! (Some of them... at least for a little while)

13

Valentine's Day, When Our Thoughts Turn to Lufu

14

[Re]Bracketing

15

Chances Are... You're Spelling It Wrong

16

It's a Cold One Out There!

17

Either/Or

18

Feeling French (and Fancy)

19

The 2025 Words of the Year

20

Let's See What Sticks

21

Anachronyms

22

A Plethora of Plurals! (Encore)

23

Abbrs.

24

Mailbag Day!

25

It's a Thanksgiving Feast!

26

Grab Bag Day!

27

Going for Gold on the SAT

28

Frankenwords

29

It's Spooky Season!

30

More Weird Word Origins

31

Getting a Little Too Fancy

32

Pet Peeve-a-Palooza! (Part 2)

33

Pet Peeve-a-Palooza! (Part 1)

34

Calques

35

Getting an F on the SAT

36

A message from You're Saying It Wrong

37

Irish Names Are My Pet Piamh

38

An E-Prime Cut of Beef

39

In the Heighths

40

Petty Pet Peeves for Persnickety Pedants

41

The Graham Cracker Rule of 'Those Ones'

42

The Secret of -nym

43

It's Summertime, and the Etymology is... Questionable

44

American History Needs a Little Copy Editing

45

Suffix Fight!

46

The Debatables

47

Dislocate Your Syntax, Not Your Shoulder

48

Let's Take a Look in the Ol' Grab Bag...

49

I, For One, Do Not Welcome Our Robot Overlords

50

Pet Peeves, Oxymorons, and Other Unusual Animals

51

Colorless Green Mailbags Sleep Furiously

52

The Spell-a-Thon From Hell-a-Thon (Part 2)

53

The Spell-a-Thon From Hell-a-Thon (Part 1)

54

Who Gets Credit, Anyway?

55

We're Gonna Party Like It's 1985

56

Tulip Mania!

57

Where Are the Beeves?

58

The Letter of the Day is E!

59

Spring Has Sprung!

60

We're looking to the past

61

Happy 200!

62

Let's Get Fancy

63

Mailbag Day!

64

Enough With the Latin Already!

65

Getting a D on the SAT

66

We'll Never Give You the Cold Shoulder

67

Canadian English

68

The Norman Conquest of the English Language

69

Idioms: They're Not Rocket Science

70

Get These Words Outta Here!

71

Getting a C on the SAT

72

The Words of 2024

73

A Plethora of Plurals!

74

Is This Socially Acceptable??

75

Grab-bag Day

76

It's All Relative

77

ENCORE: These Names Have Snob Appeal

78

Getting a B on the SAT

79

A Little Stress Relief

80

Electoral Confusion

81

It's Getting Spoooooky Again

82

Italian Food!

83

Make No Mistake

84

The "Most" Words

85

Of Course! A Mere Trifle.

86

The Hidden World of Syllable Stress

87

Let's Hop Across the Pond

88

Getting an A on the SAT

89

We Simply Must Talk About Modal Verbs

90

Let's Hit the Beach

91

Now is the winter of our discontent made brat summer

92

Back-formations

93

Silly Rules (Or, the Unpredictability of the English Language)

94

The Etymology Olympics

95

Is This a Fossil? Or Just Some Dumb Old Rock?

96

The Ambiguity of English (Is the Name of My Jazz Band)

97

It's a Dead Language, I Always Say

98

Cranberry Morphemes

99

Final Exams

100

The Defining Words of the Spelling Bee

101

The Oldest of Old Words

102

Smooshed-up Words

103

The Rheturn of Rhetoric

104

Ye Olde Fossil Words

105

If I Were To Talk About The Subjunctive...

106

We are all rhetoricians now

107

These Names Have Snob Appeal

108

Shakespeare: He made up a lot of words

109

British-isms

110

The Good Kind of Stress

111

A message from You're Saying It Wrong

112

Return of the Confusables

113

Weird Word Origins

114

Pretending to be proper

115

Sticky, tricky grammar moments

116

Psilence!

117

The Latin Craze

118

Sneaky rules we don't know we follow

119

Hyperforeignisms and other times we just get too excited

120

Doublespeak!

121

Big News!

122

The Words of 2023

123

Deck the Halls!

124

Stop being so non-positive!

125

Escher sentences (and other nice ways of saying nothing)

126

Garden paths, crash blossoms, and other terrible ways of saying things

127

Autumn Mailbag!

128

The dictionary's newest words (part 2)

129

The dictionary's newest words

130

Grammar thingies

131

You're Spelling It Wrong 2023

132

The words of summer

133

Around the world in 30 minutes

134

You're telling me that's English?? (Part 2)

135

You're telling me that's English??

136

Let's do a grammar quiz!

137

Road trip!

138

That used to mean what??

139

We did it by (on?) accident!

140

Big words we actually kind of like

141

The twisted world of bureaucracy

142

In the hells of academia

143

Mailbag day!

144

That still doesn't mean what you think it means, part 2

145

That still doesn't mean what you think it means

146

The Staying Power of Slang

147

Searching for meaning in Gen Z slang

148

The most mispronounced words of 2022

149

Wait, THESE are the words of the year??

150

Will We Ever Learn?

151

Come Sit With Us a Spell

152

Get My Agentive Suffix On the Phone!

153

Happy Spooky Season

154

Secret Agentive Suffix Man! - YSIW

155

Mangrove Peat Accretion | YSIW

156

SAT Prep

157

Separated by a Common Language, Part 2

158

Separated by a Common Language

159

Wait... Is There a Difference? Part 2

160

Wait... Is There a Difference?

161

Happy 100!

162

Hold Tight!

163

Phrasal Verbs | YSIW

164

Join in the Celebration! (A Small Request)

165

You're spelling it wrong... again

166

A dangling modifier walks into a bar...

167

Dead Grammar Is? | YSIW

168

Genericide | YSIW

169

Trademark this!

170

We're Doing Some Verbing | YSIW

171

A Visit From Lady Mondegreen | YSIW

172

Encore: Place Name Showdown

173

A really, really, really hard quiz

174

We're in a Mood | YSIW

175

Driving Linguistic Change | YSIW

176

Get Thee Behind Me, 2021! | YSIW

177

The (Most Mispronounced) Words of the Year! | YSIW

178

A Grab Bag of Confusion | YSIW

179

Medial Cluster Reduction! | YSIW

180

Weird Origins of Everyday Phrases | YSIW

181

Apostrophes? Who Needs 'Em?! | YSIW

182

Fun with plurals! | YSIW

183

You're (Still) Spelling It Wrong

184

You're Spelling It Wrong | YSIW

185

Pretentious Confusables | YSIW

186

It's Time To Execute The Contronym Discussion | YSIW

187

Sanction? Oversight? Let's Have Fun With Some Contronyms | YSIW

188

Flapdoodle Words (Part 2: The Sequel) | YSIW

189

Flapdoodle Words

190

Some Good News! (And a Little Warning.)