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Breaking up is hard to do, and it's hard to put into appropriate words. Comedian Rosie Wilby seeks a better term for 'ex', and family law barrister...
- Added: Mar 06, 2016
- Length: 18:28
You're looking for your perfect partner, but dating sites keep matching you with duds. So what do you do? Conduct an elaborate linguistic experimen...
- Added: Feb 06, 2016
- Length: 41:57
Your online dating profile is the latest spin on a 300-year-old tradition of advertising yourself in order to find a spouse, a sexual partner, or s...
- Added: Feb 03, 2016
- Length: 41:08
CONTENT WARNING: Be wary of listening to this episode around young children, as there may be life spoilers. Historian Greg Jenner traces the origin...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 14, 2015
- Length: 25:35
- Purchases: 1
There’s a language which is said to be the smallest language in the world. It has around 123 words, five vowels, nine consonants, and apparently yo...
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Added: Dec 14, 2015
- Length: 20:24
- Purchases: 1
Naming something after yourself: a grand display of egomania, or the humble willingness to be overshadowed by your own product? Stationery expert J...
- Added: Oct 24, 2015
- Length: 17:56
“Talking about music is like dancing about architecture” is a problematic statement: not just because nobody can agree on who came up with it, but ...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 24, 2015
- Length: 27:04
- Purchases: 3
The messiness of English is the price of its success. It is the most widely spoken language in the world, geographically, being an official languag...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 14, 2015
- Length: 28:03
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jul 02, 2015
- Length: 28:27
- Purchases: 1
It’s June; the President of the USA has officially designated it LGBT Pride Month, and there’ll be Pride events around the world. But how did the w...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KZMU Moab Community Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 03, 2015
- Length: 14:08
- Purchases: 3
On the eve of the 2015 General Election in the UK, take a jaunt through the etymology of election-related words.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 06, 2015
- Length: 09:01
- Purchases: 1
You'd think you could trust dictionaries, but it turns out, they are riddled with LIES.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 26, 2015
- Length: 15:26
- Purchases: 1
