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You're Saying It Wrong — 199 episodes

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Title
1

Technically Speaking

2

Getting Your House in Order

3

Technical Difficulties

4

Congrats, Grads!

5

More Unknown Knowns

6

Meh, Duh, D'oh, and Other Communicative Grunts

7

Common Grammar Controversies

8

How Tiny Differences Can Make a Huge... Difference

9

A Lowdown Dirty Spelling Quiz (Part 2)

10

A Lowdown Dirty Spelling Quiz

11

Cymraeg

12

Phonotactics!

13

What's in a Name?

14

[Encore] Where Are the Beeves?

15

Euphemisms

16

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

17

Register and Power

18

Broadening Our Horizons

19

Beginnings and Endings

20

Banished and Un-Banished Words

21

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

22

Valentine's Day, When Our Thoughts Turn to Lufu

23

[Re]Bracketing

24

Chances Are... You're Spelling It Wrong

25

It's a Cold One Out There!

26

Either/Or

27

Feeling French (and Fancy)

28

The 2025 Words of the Year

29

Let's See What Sticks

30

Anachronyms

31

A Plethora of Plurals! (Encore)

32

Abbrs.

33

Mailbag Day!

34

It's a Thanksgiving Feast!

35

Grab Bag Day!

36

Going for Gold on the SAT

37

Frankenwords

38

It's Spooky Season!

39

More Weird Word Origins

40

Getting a Little Too Fancy

41

Pet Peeve-a-Palooza! (Part 2)

42

Pet Peeve-a-Palooza! (Part 1)

43

Calques

44

Getting an F on the SAT

45

A message from You're Saying It Wrong

46

Irish Names Are My Pet Piamh

47

An E-Prime Cut of Beef

48

In the Heighths

49

Petty Pet Peeves for Persnickety Pedants

50

The Graham Cracker Rule of 'Those Ones'

51

The Secret of -nym

52

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

53

American History Needs a Little Copy Editing

54

Suffix Fight!

55

The Debatables

56

Dislocate Your Syntax, Not Your Shoulder

57

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

58

I, For One, Do Not Welcome Our Robot Overlords

59

Pet Peeves, Oxymorons, and Other Unusual Animals

60

Colorless Green Mailbags Sleep Furiously

61

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

62

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

63

Who Gets Credit, Anyway?

64

We're Gonna Party Like It's 1985

65

Tulip Mania!

66

Where Are the Beeves?

67

The Letter of the Day is E!

68

Spring Has Sprung!

69

We're looking to the past

70

Happy 200!

71

Let's Get Fancy

72

Mailbag Day!

73

Enough With the Latin Already!

74

Getting a D on the SAT

75

We'll Never Give You the Cold Shoulder

76

Canadian English

77

The Norman Conquest of the English Language

78

Idioms: They're Not Rocket Science

79

Get These Words Outta Here!

80

Getting a C on the SAT

81

The Words of 2024

82

A Plethora of Plurals!

83

Is This Socially Acceptable??

84

Grab-bag Day

85

It's All Relative

86

ENCORE: These Names Have Snob Appeal

87

Getting a B on the SAT

88

A Little Stress Relief

89

Electoral Confusion

90

It's Getting Spoooooky Again

91

Italian Food!

92

Make No Mistake

93

The "Most" Words

94

Of Course! A Mere Trifle.

95

The Hidden World of Syllable Stress

96

Let's Hop Across the Pond

97

Getting an A on the SAT

98

We Simply Must Talk About Modal Verbs

99

Let's Hit the Beach

100

Now is the winter of our discontent made brat summer

101

Back-formations

102

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

103

The Etymology Olympics

104

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

105

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

106

It's a Dead Language, I Always Say

107

Cranberry Morphemes

108

Final Exams

109

The Defining Words of the Spelling Bee

110

The Oldest of Old Words

111

Smooshed-up Words

112

The Rheturn of Rhetoric

113

Ye Olde Fossil Words

114

If I Were To Talk About The Subjunctive...

115

We are all rhetoricians now

116

These Names Have Snob Appeal

117

Shakespeare: He made up a lot of words

118

British-isms

119

The Good Kind of Stress

120

A message from You're Saying It Wrong

121

Return of the Confusables

122

Weird Word Origins

123

Pretending to be proper

124

Sticky, tricky grammar moments

125

Psilence!

126

The Latin Craze

127

Sneaky rules we don't know we follow

128

Hyperforeignisms and other times we just get too excited

129

Doublespeak!

130

Big News!

131

The Words of 2023

132

Deck the Halls!

133

Stop being so non-positive!

134

Escher sentences (and other nice ways of saying nothing)

135

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

136

Autumn Mailbag!

137

The dictionary's newest words (part 2)

138

The dictionary's newest words

139

Grammar thingies

140

You're Spelling It Wrong 2023

141

The words of summer

142

Around the world in 30 minutes

143

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

144

You're telling me that's English??

145

Let's do a grammar quiz!

146

Road trip!

147

That used to mean what??

148

We did it by (on?) accident!

149

Big words we actually kind of like

150

The twisted world of bureaucracy

151

In the hells of academia

152

Mailbag day!

153

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

154

That still doesn't mean what you think it means

155

The Staying Power of Slang

156

Searching for meaning in Gen Z slang

157

The most mispronounced words of 2022

158

Wait, THESE are the words of the year??

159

Will We Ever Learn?

160

Come Sit With Us a Spell

161

Get My Agentive Suffix On the Phone!

162

Happy Spooky Season

163

Secret Agentive Suffix Man! - YSIW

164

Mangrove Peat Accretion | YSIW

165

SAT Prep

166

Separated by a Common Language, Part 2

167

Separated by a Common Language

168

Wait... Is There a Difference? Part 2

169

Wait... Is There a Difference?

170

Happy 100!

171

Hold Tight!

172

Phrasal Verbs | YSIW

173

Join in the Celebration! (A Small Request)

174

You're spelling it wrong... again

175

A dangling modifier walks into a bar...

176

Dead Grammar Is? | YSIW

177

Genericide | YSIW

178

Trademark this!

179

We're Doing Some Verbing | YSIW

180

A Visit From Lady Mondegreen | YSIW

181

Encore: Place Name Showdown

182

A really, really, really hard quiz

183

We're in a Mood | YSIW

184

Driving Linguistic Change | YSIW

185

Get Thee Behind Me, 2021! | YSIW

186

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

187

A Grab Bag of Confusion | YSIW

188

Medial Cluster Reduction! | YSIW

189

Weird Origins of Everyday Phrases | YSIW

190

Apostrophes? Who Needs 'Em?! | YSIW

191

Fun with plurals! | YSIW

192

You're (Still) Spelling It Wrong

193

You're Spelling It Wrong | YSIW

194

Pretentious Confusables | YSIW

195

It's Time To Execute The Contronym Discussion | YSIW

196

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

197

Flapdoodle Words (Part 2: The Sequel) | YSIW

198

Flapdoodle Words

199

Some Good News! (And a Little Warning.)