Word Matters

102 Episodes

1. Episode 100: How did we get here?

   Published: 8/3/2022
2. Do we repeat ourselves? Very well then, we repeat ourselves.

   Published: 7/27/2022
3. Hackneyed Phrases, Both Old and New

   Published: 7/20/2022
4. Tips for Frenchifying Your French

   Published: 7/13/2022
5. Eggcorns, Mondegreens, and Spoonerisms—Oh My!

   Published: 7/6/2022
6. Traveling Words: Luggage, Baggage, and the Recombobulation Station

   Published: 6/29/2022
7. Skunked Words

   Published: 6/22/2022
8. When Dictionaries Drop Words

   Published: 6/15/2022
9. Wordle Does Not Make Us Nauseous

   Published: 6/8/2022
10. The Invention of the Modern Dictionary

    Published: 6/1/2022
11. An Interview with Jacques Bailly, Official Pronouncer for Scripps National Spelling Bee

    Published: 5/25/2022
12. Nashe's 8 Types of Drunkards Includes No Octopi

    Published: 5/18/2022
13. Will 'ect.' become an acceptable spelling of 'etc.'? And if it does, will that be unexplainable or merely inexplicable?

    Published: 5/11/2022
14. Corrections, Clarifications, and Grave Transgressions

    Published: 5/4/2022
15. Uncommon Opposites

    Published: 4/27/2022
16. George Orwell's 'Politics and the English Language'

    Published: 4/20/2022
17. Linguistic Double Dipping

    Published: 4/13/2022
18. All About Abbreviations

    Published: 4/6/2022
19. The History of 'Whistleblower'

    Published: 3/30/2022
20. What does it mean to be 'at large'?

    Published: 3/23/2022