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- Added: Sep 22, 2017
- Length: 04:05
- Purchases: 1
An introduction to this series about engineering vocabulary, phrases, acronyms, jargon, and slang.
- Added: Sep 22, 2017
- Length: 03:14
- Purchases: 2
Our youngest listeners have questions about everything from love to one of their favorite foods. Kids ask why we might end a text with the letters ...
Bought by KUAT, KQRU FM LP, Tri States Public Radio, KMXT, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more
- Added: Aug 30, 2017
- Length: 29:45
- Purchases: 9
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Tragedy n. “goat song” Named for the dramatic plays of the ancient Greeks, characterized by a protagonist whose flaw or error in judgment leads to ...
- Added: Feb 21, 2017
- Length: 16:26
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
The practice of hunting wild birds with trained birds — for fun — is called falconry. Though it came into its own almost 1,000 years ago in England...
Bought by 'The Sea'
- Added: Feb 03, 2017
- Length: 31:40
- Purchases: 1
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
English is a remarkable language. It's an incredibly flexible, rich, diverse, beautifully fluid language that’s been influenced by many other langu...
- Added: Jan 25, 2017
- Length: 21:12
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Of the 88 constellations officially recognized by Western astronomy, 40 of them are named after animals — 43 if you count the mythical animals. We’...
- Added: Jan 25, 2017
- Length: 49:17
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
If you’ve made a serious faux pas and need to acknowledge it with humility, you might be said to be “eating crow” or “eating humble pie.” In this e...
- Added: Jan 25, 2017
- Length: 18:43
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
The 2016 US election isn't going away anytime soon, so let's seek refuge in etymology. Consider the linguistically appropriate age of a senator, an...
- Added: Feb 25, 2016
- Length: 36:05
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
It's cathartic; it's a useful historical record; and it might help you behave better on public transport. Neil Katcher and Dave Nadelberg from Mort...
- Added: Dec 14, 2015
- Length: 18:58
Phoebe Judge and Lauren Spohrer from the podcast Criminal stop by to talk about the linguistic challenges of crime reporting. They also share their...
- Added: Nov 02, 2015
- Length: 23:05
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
Why do we all sound like idiots when we talk to babies?
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 08, 2015
- Length: 11:37
- Purchases: 2
“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
Words are all over the place. So how do you turn them into fun games? Here to show the way is Leslie Scott, founder of Oxford Games and inventor of...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 14, 2015
- Length: 27:35
- Purchases: 2
Emoji allow communication without words. Could emoji be the universal language of the 21st century?
Bought by WABE
- Added: Jul 27, 2015
- Length: 16:54
- 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
- Added: May 21, 2015
- Length: 12:39
- Purchases: 1
