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ANIMALOGY is a podcast about language, the animal-related words and phrases we use every day, and how they reflect and affect our relationship with (and treatment of) animals. Hosted by Coll...
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In earlier episodes of Animalogy Podcast, we talked about parts of our anatomy named for their resemblance to animals, such as muscle and co...

Have you ever been "fleeced"? Have you ever "gone in search of the golden fleece" or "pulled the wool over someone's eyes"? Are your opinion...

We have many words built from the English word for "bear," the Latin word for "bear," and the Greek word for "bear," and we have many expres...

The word “fly” is a very old word, and of course we have many expressions and nouns that contain the word "fly" itself, but do you know that...

In a pivotal scene in David Lynch’s film, The Elephant Man, the main character turns on those who are cruelly taunting him and declares “I a...

If I asked you to name some cities and countries named after animals, how many could you come up with? You might think of obvious ones, such...

"Piggyback" has nothing to do with pigs! In fact, there are many seemingly animal-related words and phrases in the English language that hav...

By now you would have listened to the Animalogy episodes about the words muscle, coccyx, and tragus — all parts of our body. All words from...

The word meat goes back at least as far as 731 AD, but it didn't mean then what it does today. Its meaning was much broader. Understanding t...

Whereas the word veal in English simply means “flesh of a calf” and pork in English means “flesh of a pig used as food,” hidden in many of t...

Roughly 10,000 new words entered the English language during the Norman occupation and assimilation, particularly those having to do with th...

In a previous episode on words for different colors, an episode called Ingrained: A Crush of Color, I talked about the names we have for col...

When something is ingrained , it’s "deeply rooted" or "firmly fixed," pertaining to qualities, dispositions, or habits. This figurative use...

A toady is a person who flatters and ingratiates himself or herself to another person in a servile way; a toady is a sycophant, a flatterer,...

For years, the dairy industry has been trying to make it illegal for nondairy milk companies to use the word “milk," asserting that the word...

Animalogy is all about the animal-related words and phrases in the English language, but did you know there are animals in the very letters...

Tragedy n. "goat song" Named for the dramatic plays of the ancient Greeks, characterized by a protagonist whose flaw or error in judgment le...

Semantics play a significant role in shaping public perception about animals and animal welfare. The meat, dairy, and egg industries go to g...

In this episode of Animalogy, we explore the goat-related words and expressions in our everyday language — particularly those formed by the...

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 E...

Roll up your sleeve past your bicep, flex your arm at the elbow, and squeeze — or contract — your bicep muscle. Take a look at it. Now, rela...

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,” bo...

Of the 88 constellations officially recognized by Western astronomy, 40 of them are named after animals — 43 if you count the mythical anima...

Throughout the episodes of Animalogy, I’ll be talking about the Proto-Indo-European reconstructed language, the related Indo-European langua...

Coccyx is a small triangle-shaped bone at the base of the spinal column in humans and other apes, such as gibbons, orangutans, gorillas, and...

This inaugural episode of Animalogy, a podcast about the animal-related words and expressions we use every day, takes us back to the politic...

Drawing upon etymology, history, linguistics, literature, anthropology, sociology, and psychology, Animalogy unpacks the idioms, euphemisms,...
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