105 Episoade

  1. All About Abbreviations

    Publicat: 06.04.2022
  2. The History of 'Whistleblower'

    Publicat: 30.03.2022
  3. What does it mean to be 'at large'?

    Publicat: 23.03.2022
  4. Dictionary Arcana

    Publicat: 16.03.2022
  5. A Pair of Suffixes and The History of 'Ditto'

    Publicat: 09.03.2022
  6. On Secretly Gendered Language

    Publicat: 02.03.2022
  7. How to Order Adjectives

    Publicat: 23.02.2022
  8. When Nouns Act Like Adjectives

    Publicat: 16.02.2022
  9. Dipping Into the Mailbag: 'Yeet,' 'Typeface' vs. 'Font,' and 'Lo and Behold'

    Publicat: 09.02.2022
  10. The History of the English Language (The Podcast)

    Publicat: 02.02.2022
  11. Words That Began as Metaphors

    Publicat: 26.01.2022
  12. Inside Our Citation Files

    Publicat: 19.01.2022
  13. Getting Philosophical About the Dictionary

    Publicat: 12.01.2022
  14. The Newest Words in the Dictionary

    Publicat: 05.01.2022
  15. The Year in Words 2021

    Publicat: 15.12.2021
  16. Our Word of the Year 2021

    Publicat: 08.12.2021
  17. Researching Slang (with Ben Zimmer)

    Publicat: 01.12.2021
  18. Why Is There No 'N' in 'Restaurateur'?

    Publicat: 24.11.2021
  19. 'Decimate': Use It However You Want

    Publicat: 17.11.2021
  20. What It Means to 'Call an Audible'

    Publicat: 10.11.2021

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