You're Saying It Wrong
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From KMUW Studios and part of the NPR Podcast Network, You're Saying It Wrong is a podcast that looks at what we get wrong—and what we sometimes get right—when it comes to this English language. Hosted by KMUW's Fletcher Powell, each episode features a conversation with the sister and brother who wrote the book on it. Literally. You're Saying It Wrong: A Pronunciation Guide to the 150 Most Commonly Mispronounced Words and Their Tangled Histories of Misuse is by Kathryn Petras and Ross Petras.On June 24, 2022, You’re Saying It Wrong received first place in Division B for Interview Podcasts from the Public Media Journalists Association. The awards recognize the best work in public media journalism from across the country.You're Saying It Wrong is available to public radio stations through PRX.
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More Unknown Knowns
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Jun 13, 2026 |
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Meh, Duh, D'oh, and Other Communicative Grunts
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Jun 06, 2026 |
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Common Grammar Controversies
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May 30, 2026 |
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How Tiny Differences Can Make a Huge... Difference
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May 23, 2026 |
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A Lowdown Dirty Spelling Quiz (Part 2)
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May 16, 2026 |
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A Lowdown Dirty Spelling Quiz
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May 09, 2026 |
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Cymraeg
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May 02, 2026 |
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Phonotactics!
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Apr 25, 2026 |
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What's in a Name?
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Apr 18, 2026 |
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[Encore] Where Are the Beeves?
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Apr 11, 2026 |
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Euphemisms
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Apr 04, 2026 |
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If We Knew You Were Comin' We'd've Baked a Cake
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Mar 28, 2026 |
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Register and Power
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Mar 21, 2026 |
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Broadening Our Horizons
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Mar 14, 2026 |
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Beginnings and Endings
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Mar 07, 2026 |
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Banished and Un-Banished Words
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Feb 28, 2026 |
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Banish These Words! (Some of them... at least for a little while)
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Feb 21, 2026 |
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Valentine's Day, When Our Thoughts Turn to Lufu
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Feb 14, 2026 |
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[Re]Bracketing
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Feb 07, 2026 |
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Chances Are... You're Spelling It Wrong
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Jan 31, 2026 |
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It's a Cold One Out There!
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Jan 24, 2026 |
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Either/Or
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Jan 17, 2026 |
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Feeling French (and Fancy)
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Jan 10, 2026 |
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The 2025 Words of the Year
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Jan 03, 2026 |
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Let's See What Sticks
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Dec 27, 2025 |
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Anachronyms
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Dec 20, 2025 |
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A Plethora of Plurals! (Encore)
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Dec 13, 2025 |
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Abbrs.
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Dec 06, 2025 |
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Mailbag Day!
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Nov 29, 2025 |
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It's a Thanksgiving Feast!
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Nov 22, 2025 |
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Grab Bag Day!
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Nov 15, 2025 |
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Going for Gold on the SAT
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Nov 08, 2025 |
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Frankenwords
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Nov 01, 2025 |
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It's Spooky Season!
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Oct 25, 2025 |
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More Weird Word Origins
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Oct 18, 2025 |
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Getting a Little Too Fancy
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Oct 11, 2025 |
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Pet Peeve-a-Palooza! (Part 2)
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Oct 04, 2025 |
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Pet Peeve-a-Palooza! (Part 1)
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Sep 27, 2025 |
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Calques
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Sep 20, 2025 |
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Getting an F on the SAT
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Sep 13, 2025 |
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A message from You're Saying It Wrong
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Sep 06, 2025 |
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Irish Names Are My Pet Piamh
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Aug 30, 2025 |
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An E-Prime Cut of Beef
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Aug 23, 2025 |
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In the Heighths
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Aug 16, 2025 |
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Petty Pet Peeves for Persnickety Pedants
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Aug 09, 2025 |
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The Graham Cracker Rule of 'Those Ones'
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Aug 02, 2025 |
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The Secret of -nym
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Jul 26, 2025 |
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It's Summertime, and the Etymology is... Questionable
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Jul 19, 2025 |
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American History Needs a Little Copy Editing
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Jul 12, 2025 |
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Suffix Fight!
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Jul 05, 2025 |
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The Debatables
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Jun 28, 2025 |
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Dislocate Your Syntax, Not Your Shoulder
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Jun 21, 2025 |
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Let's Take a Look in the Ol' Grab Bag...
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Jun 14, 2025 |
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I, For One, Do Not Welcome Our Robot Overlords
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Jun 07, 2025 |
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Pet Peeves, Oxymorons, and Other Unusual Animals
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May 31, 2025 |
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Colorless Green Mailbags Sleep Furiously
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May 24, 2025 |
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The Spell-a-Thon From Hell-a-Thon (Part 2)
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May 17, 2025 |
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The Spell-a-Thon From Hell-a-Thon (Part 1)
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May 10, 2025 |
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Who Gets Credit, Anyway?
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May 03, 2025 |
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We're Gonna Party Like It's 1985
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Apr 26, 2025 |
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Tulip Mania!
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Apr 19, 2025 |
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Where Are the Beeves?
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Apr 12, 2025 |
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The Letter of the Day is E!
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Apr 05, 2025 |
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Spring Has Sprung!
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Mar 29, 2025 |
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We're looking to the past
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Mar 22, 2025 |
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Happy 200!
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Mar 15, 2025 |
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Let's Get Fancy
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Mar 08, 2025 |
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Mailbag Day!
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Mar 01, 2025 |
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Enough With the Latin Already!
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Feb 22, 2025 |
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Getting a D on the SAT
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Feb 15, 2025 |
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We'll Never Give You the Cold Shoulder
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Feb 08, 2025 |
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Canadian English
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Feb 01, 2025 |
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The Norman Conquest of the English Language
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Jan 25, 2025 |
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Idioms: They're Not Rocket Science
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Jan 18, 2025 |
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Get These Words Outta Here!
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Jan 11, 2025 |
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Getting a C on the SAT
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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The Words of 2024
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Dec 28, 2024 |
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A Plethora of Plurals!
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Dec 21, 2024 |
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Is This Socially Acceptable??
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Dec 14, 2024 |
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Grab-bag Day
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Dec 07, 2024 |
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It's All Relative
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Nov 30, 2024 |
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ENCORE: These Names Have Snob Appeal
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Nov 23, 2024 |
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Getting a B on the SAT
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Nov 16, 2024 |
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A Little Stress Relief
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Nov 09, 2024 |
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Electoral Confusion
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Nov 02, 2024 |
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It's Getting Spoooooky Again
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Oct 26, 2024 |
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Italian Food!
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Oct 19, 2024 |
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Make No Mistake
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Oct 12, 2024 |
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The "Most" Words
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Oct 05, 2024 |
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Of Course! A Mere Trifle.
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Sep 28, 2024 |
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The Hidden World of Syllable Stress
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Sep 21, 2024 |
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Let's Hop Across the Pond
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Sep 14, 2024 |
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Getting an A on the SAT
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Sep 07, 2024 |
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We Simply Must Talk About Modal Verbs
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Aug 31, 2024 |
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Let's Hit the Beach
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Aug 24, 2024 |
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Now is the winter of our discontent made brat summer
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Aug 17, 2024 |
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Back-formations
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Aug 10, 2024 |
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Silly Rules (Or, the Unpredictability of the English Language)
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Aug 03, 2024 |
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The Etymology Olympics
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Jul 27, 2024 |
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Is This a Fossil? Or Just Some Dumb Old Rock?
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Jul 20, 2024 |
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The Ambiguity of English (Is the Name of My Jazz Band)
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Jul 13, 2024 |
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It's a Dead Language, I Always Say
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Jul 06, 2024 |
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Cranberry Morphemes
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Jun 29, 2024 |
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Final Exams
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Jun 22, 2024 |
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The Defining Words of the Spelling Bee
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Jun 15, 2024 |
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The Oldest of Old Words
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Jun 08, 2024 |
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Smooshed-up Words
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Jun 01, 2024 |
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The Rheturn of Rhetoric
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May 25, 2024 |
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Ye Olde Fossil Words
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May 18, 2024 |
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If I Were To Talk About The Subjunctive...
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May 11, 2024 |
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We are all rhetoricians now
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May 04, 2024 |
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These Names Have Snob Appeal
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Apr 27, 2024 |
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Shakespeare: He made up a lot of words
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Apr 20, 2024 |
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British-isms
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Apr 13, 2024 |
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The Good Kind of Stress
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Apr 06, 2024 |
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A message from You're Saying It Wrong
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Mar 30, 2024 |
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Return of the Confusables
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Mar 23, 2024 |
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Weird Word Origins
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Mar 16, 2024 |
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Pretending to be proper
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Mar 09, 2024 |
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Sticky, tricky grammar moments
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Mar 02, 2024 |
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Psilence!
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Feb 24, 2024 |
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The Latin Craze
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Feb 17, 2024 |
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Sneaky rules we don't know we follow
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Feb 10, 2024 |
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Hyperforeignisms and other times we just get too excited
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Feb 03, 2024 |
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Doublespeak!
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Jan 27, 2024 |
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Big News!
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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The Words of 2023
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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Deck the Halls!
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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Stop being so non-positive!
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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Escher sentences (and other nice ways of saying nothing)
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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Garden paths, crash blossoms, and other terrible ways of saying things
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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Autumn Mailbag!
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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The dictionary's newest words (part 2)
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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The dictionary's newest words
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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Grammar thingies
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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You're Spelling It Wrong 2023
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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The words of summer
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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Around the world in 30 minutes
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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You're telling me that's English?? (Part 2)
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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You're telling me that's English??
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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Let's do a grammar quiz!
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Road trip!
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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That used to mean what??
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May 26, 2023 |
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We did it by (on?) accident!
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May 12, 2023 |
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Big words we actually kind of like
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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The twisted world of bureaucracy
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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In the hells of academia
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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Mailbag day!
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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That still doesn't mean what you think it means, part 2
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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That still doesn't mean what you think it means
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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The Staying Power of Slang
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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Searching for meaning in Gen Z slang
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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The most mispronounced words of 2022
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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Wait, THESE are the words of the year??
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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Will We Ever Learn?
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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Come Sit With Us a Spell
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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Get My Agentive Suffix On the Phone!
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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Happy Spooky Season
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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Secret Agentive Suffix Man! - YSIW
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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Mangrove Peat Accretion | YSIW
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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SAT Prep
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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Separated by a Common Language, Part 2
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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Separated by a Common Language
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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Wait... Is There a Difference? Part 2
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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Wait... Is There a Difference?
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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Happy 100!
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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Hold Tight!
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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Phrasal Verbs | YSIW
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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Join in the Celebration! (A Small Request)
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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You're spelling it wrong... again
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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A dangling modifier walks into a bar...
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May 27, 2022 |
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Dead Grammar Is? | YSIW
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May 13, 2022 |
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Genericide | YSIW
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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Trademark this!
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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We're Doing Some Verbing | YSIW
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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A Visit From Lady Mondegreen | YSIW
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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Encore: Place Name Showdown
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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A really, really, really hard quiz
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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We're in a Mood | YSIW
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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Driving Linguistic Change | YSIW
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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Get Thee Behind Me, 2021! | YSIW
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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The (Most Mispronounced) Words of the Year! | YSIW
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Dec 24, 2021 |
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A Grab Bag of Confusion | YSIW
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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Medial Cluster Reduction! | YSIW
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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Weird Origins of Everyday Phrases | YSIW
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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Apostrophes? Who Needs 'Em?! | YSIW
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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Fun with plurals! | YSIW
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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You're (Still) Spelling It Wrong
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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You're Spelling It Wrong | YSIW
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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Pretentious Confusables | YSIW
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Sep 03, 2021 |
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It's Time To Execute The Contronym Discussion | YSIW
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Aug 20, 2021 |
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Sanction? Oversight? Let's Have Fun With Some Contronyms | YSIW
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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Flapdoodle Words (Part 2: The Sequel) | YSIW
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Jul 23, 2021 |
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Flapdoodle Words
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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Some Good News! (And a Little Warning.)
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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We're Flat Fine With These Adverbs | YSIW
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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It's The Wild West Out Here! | YSIW
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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Mailbag Day! Or, We Lay Waste (to) The English Language | YSIW
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May 28, 2021 |
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A Return To Blipover Words | YSIW
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May 14, 2021 |
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Taking Selfies | YSIW
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Apr 30, 2021 |