Word-origin Wednesday
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 2:56:44
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Synopsis
Word-Origin Wednesday is the weekly podcast that walks you through a word origin in five minutes or less.
Episodes
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Ghost and Ghoul (Word-Origin Wednesday)
30/10/2019 Duration: 04min"Ghost" is a pretty old word. "Ghoul," as an English word, not so much.
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October (Word-Origin Wednesday)
23/10/2019 Duration: 02minThe names of "October" and a few other months make a lot more sense if we look at Latin and the Roman calendar.
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Sympathy (Word-Origin Wednesday)
16/10/2019 Duration: 04minThe everyday meaning of "sympathy" has shifted over the years, but it's always had some connection to its Latin and Greek roots.
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Hysterical (Word-Origin Wednesday)
09/10/2019 Duration: 04minBefore it entered everyday English, "hysterical" was medical Latin.
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Autumn and Fall (Word-Origin Wednesday)
02/10/2019 Duration: 04minDo you say "autumn" or "fall" to describe the season between summer and winter? Get the lowdown on the history of both words.
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Dead Duck (Word-Origin Wednesday)
25/09/2019 Duration: 03min"Dead" and "duck" go way back, but the term "dead duck" is only a couple of centuries old.
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Landlubber (Word-Origin Wednesday)
18/09/2019 Duration: 03minThe often miswritten and mispronounced "landlubber" goes back a few centuries.
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Nice (Word-Origin Wednesday)
11/09/2019 Duration: 03min"Nice" has had at least a dozen definitions over the last few centuries.
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Peruse (Word-Origin Wednesday)
04/09/2019 Duration: 04minThe Modern English "peruse" came from the Middle English "peruse" . . . or maybe it came from French.
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Factory And Manufacturing (Word-Origin Wednesday)
28/08/2019 Duration: 04minWith Labor Day approaching, let's look at "factory" and "manufacturing." They were both borrowed from Latin.
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Escalate (Word-Origin Wednesday)
21/08/2019 Duration: 04min"Escalate" is fairly new word, and the current definition has been around since just the 1950s.
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Put Up Your Dukes (Word-Origin Wednesday)
14/08/2019 Duration: 03min"Put up your dukes," which has been around since at least the 1800s, is one example of Cockney rhyming slang.
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Nickname (Word-Origin Wednesday)
07/08/2019 Duration: 04minThe transition from "ekename" to "nickname" is a fine demonstration of the transition from Middle English to Modern English.
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Posh (Word-Origin Wednesday)
31/07/2019 Duration: 05min"Posh," as it is used today, first appeared in print a little more than a century ago. But where did it come from?
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Karaoke (Word-Origin Wednesday)
24/07/2019 Duration: 03minIt took several languages to bring "karaoke" to English in the 1970s.
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Honeymoon (Word-Origin Wednesday)
17/07/2019 Duration: 03min"Honey" and "moon" are very old. "Honeymoon" is relatively new, meaning it's a mere 500 years old.
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Aioli (Word-Origin Wednesday)
10/07/2019 Duration: 02min"Aioli" comes from French, as do the words for many prepared foods.
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Mascara (Word-Origin Wednesday)
03/07/2019 Duration: 03min"Mascara" is linked to many words from many languages, many of which go back centuries before commercially available mascara hit store shelves.
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Liar (Word-Origin Wednesday)
26/06/2019 Duration: 03minThe word "liar" goes way back. As it turns out, people have been lying for a long time.
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Salary (Word-Origin Wednesday)
19/06/2019 Duration: 02min"Salary" is related to something in your kitchen, and it's not celery.