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This week we discuss more medical terms, including MRIs, EKGs, CAT scans and others; and then we proceed to some talk about food sensitiviti...
This week we discuss medical terms, including accessible care vs. guaranteed care; fractures, sprains, and strains; Alzheimer’s vs. de...
This week we continue our discussion of terms related to governance and politics. We explore crusades, demagogues, stump speeches, gerrymand...
This week we continue our discussion of terms related to governance and politics. We explore citizenship, civil disobedience, and civil war....
This week we rebroadcast our Christmas episode from 2015. In the spirit of the Christmas season, Paul Brians calls on his background as a sc...
When a would-be suicide bomber attempted a terrorist attack in New York City earlier this month, he said he chose his target because there w...
This week we continue our discussion of terms related to governance and politics. We explore caucuses, lobbyists and PACs, and more. Subscri...
This week we take up our discussion of terms related to governance and politics. We explore the origin of the word “veto,” talk about filibu...
This week we pick up from last week and serve some Thanksgiving leftovers, including “dolly/handcart,” “duck tape/duct tape,” “between you a...
This week we take a break from our extended discussion of political terms while Tom thanks Paul for creating the Common Errors in English Us...
This week we discuss, define, and explore political leanings: red/blue, liberal, libertarian, conservative, and reactionary. Subscribe on iT...
This week we discuss, define, and explore deeply more political terms. This time we cover left vs. right, socialism, and communism. Subscrib...
This week we spend the time talking about several more terms related to politics and government, including bureaucracy, red tape, ballots, v...
This week we spend the time talking about the word “empire” and its implications. Subscribe on iTunes Download mp3 On Stitcher Cartoon accom...
This week we focus on the dark side of governmental power: dictatorships, state capitalism, monarchy, oligarchy, plutocracy, kleptocracy, an...
This week we focus on voting and discuss “suffrage,”“franchise,”“republic,” and more about “democracy.” Subscribe on iTunes Download mp3 On...
This week we continue our discussion of words related to government and politics, including “feudalism,”“fiefdom,”“monarchy,” and “democracy...
This week we begin a discussion of words related to government and politics, starting with “government” and “politics” themselves. First we...
This week we finish up our discussion of useful vocabulary related to health care, including talk about networks, pre-existing conditions, H...
This week we talk more about health care, including long-term care insurance, health savings accounts, death panels, and Charlie Gard. Subsc...
This week we continue our discussion of health care. Unfortunately, we all need to know a whole lot of complicated and confusing terms to ge...
This week we continue our discussion of health care. Unfortunately, we all need to know a whole lot of complicated and confusing terms to ge...
This week, and in the coming weeks, we will discuss the vocabulary of health care. Unfortunately, we all need to know a whole lot of complic...
The ongoing debate on health care here in the US takes for granted that we understand deductible, co-pay, co-insurance, premium, out-of-pock...
Finally, after three weeks dwelling on words and expressions about idiocy, we turn our attention to some words that say smart. Subscribe on...
We’ve been talking about insults to the intelligence, and this week we conclude our discussion of adjectives. Subscribe on iTunes Download m...
We’ve been talking about insults to the intelligence, and this week we switch the focus to adjectives. Subscribe on iTunes Download mp...
This week continue our high-minded discussion of terms that insult the intelligence. Subscribe on iTunes Download mp3 On Stitcher Cartoon ac...
This week we discuss more words meant as insults to intelligence. Subscribe on iTunes Download mp3 On Stitcher Cartoon accompaniment: Links:...
This week we take on some words meant as insults to intelligence and where they come from. Subscribe on iTunes Download mp3 On Stitcher Cart...
This week we literally go back to the archives to replay our podcast on one of Paul’s most popular creations, “Mr. Gradgrind’s Literal Answe...
It’s Rose Festival time here in Portland, the City of Roses. In fact, 110 years ago, June 20–22, 1907, the first Rose Festival was held. Bac...
You see a lot of stories about various things losing steam or picking it up. This week we rebroadcast Episode 11, in which Paul discussed hi...
This week we take a break from usage and language to get some tips from Paul on photography. This time the focus is troubleshooting. Subscri...
This week we conclude our discussion of antiquated disease names. Subscribe on iTunes Download mp3 On Stitcher Cartoon accompaniment: Photo...
This week we continue to explore antiquated terms for diseases, not all of which are, unfortunately, antiquated themselves. Subscribe on iTu...
How about another round of antiquated disease names, not all of which are all that pleasant? Subscribe on iTunes Download mp3 On Stitcher Ca...
Do you even want to listen? We talk about terms we used to use for various diseases, not all of which are entirely pleasant. You’ve been war...
We conclude our discussion on contranyms, words that can mean two very different things. Subscribe on iTunes Download mp3 On Stitcher Cartoo...
We continue our discussion on contranyms, words that can mean two very different things. Subscribe on iTunes Download mp3 On Stitcher Cartoo...
We continue our discussion on contranyms, words that can mean two very different things. Subscribe on iTunes Download mp3 On Stitcher Cartoo...
Words whose meanings can be contradictory—sometimes called contranyms, autoantonyms, antagonyms, or Janus words—are this week’s topic. Subsc...
This week we talk more about photography, with the focus on photographing people. Subscribe on iTunes Download mp3 On Stitcher Some of Paul’...
This week we take a break, as we do from time to time, from language and usage to discuss one of Paul’s favorite topics: photography. Subscr...
On the podcast this week we discuss some more commonly confused terms, this time on the topic of religion. Subscribe on iTunes Download mp3...
On the podcast this week we discuss commonly confused terms related to sex and music. Subscribe on iTunes Download mp3 On Stitcher Links: Bu...
On the podcast this week we continue the discussion of “lies” as a front runner for Word of the Year. In part two we talk about the the curr...
On the podcast this week we discuss “lies” as a front runner for Word of the Year. In part one we talk about the history of presidential lie...
This week we conclude our discussion of romanticism, talking about its lasting influence. Subscribe on iTunes Download mp3 On Stitcher Links...
Happy Valentine’s Day! This week we continue on the topic of romanticism and spend a little extra time on romantic love. Subscribe on iTunes...