You're Saying It Wrong
By KMUW
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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.
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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 |
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We Are Loath (Loathe?) To Confuse These Words | YSIW
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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We're Incredulous That These Words Are Confused | YSIW
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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A Word Or Two About Portmanteaus | YSIW
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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Words We D-E-F-initely Confuse | YSIW
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Mar 05, 2021 |
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Tossing Words Around Willy-Nilly | YSIW
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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More Fun With Fossils! | YSIW
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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The ABCs Of Confused Words | YSIW
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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Redundant Language Redundancies | YSIW
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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Innovate Your Way Into Some Jargon Solutions | YSIW
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Dec 25, 2020 |
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Food! Glorious Food! (Part 2) | YSIW
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Dec 11, 2020 |
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Food! Glorious Food! (Part 1) | YSIW
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Nov 27, 2020 |
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When Bad Words... Turn Good! | YSIW
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Nov 13, 2020 |
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Origin Stories | YSIW
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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Egregious Errors: The Master Class
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Oct 16, 2020 |
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Eight Egregious Errors | YSIW
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Oct 02, 2020 |
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When Good Words Go Bad | YSIW
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Sep 18, 2020 |
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The Ambiguity Of 'OK' | YSIW
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Aug 28, 2020 |
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No, yeah! Yeah... no. | YSIW
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Aug 14, 2020 |
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Haplology: Why We Drop Sounds |YSIW
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Jul 31, 2020 |
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50 Never Sounded Better | YSIW
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Jul 17, 2020 |
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The Warmth Of The Athletic Hamster | YSIW
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Jul 03, 2020 |
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Homonyms, Heterographys & Polysemes... Oh My | YSIW
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Jun 19, 2020 |
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Is Beauty In The Ear Of The Beholder? | YSIW
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Jun 05, 2020 |
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Do Words Mean How They Sound? | YSIW
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May 22, 2020 |
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Let's Have Fun With Latin (Said Nobody Ever) | YSIW
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May 08, 2020 |
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French Phrases: Les Dites-Vous Mal? | YSIW
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Apr 24, 2020 |
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Brought To You By The Letter 'Q' | YSIW
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Apr 10, 2020 |
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Shibboleth Names You'd Better Get Right | YSIW
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Mar 27, 2020 |
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Words In The News | YSIW
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Mar 13, 2020 |
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Crazy Spellings | YSIW
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Feb 28, 2020 |
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The Same, But Different | YSIW
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Feb 16, 2020 |
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YSIW: Place Name Showdown! (Part 2)
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Jan 31, 2020 |
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YSIW: Place Name Showdown! (Part 1)
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Jan 17, 2020 |
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Much Ado About Shakespeare | YSIW
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Jan 03, 2020 |
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Merry, Gentlemen? Even Dickens Got It Wrong | YSIW
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Dec 20, 2019 |
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We're Talking Politics! (Poli-talk?) | YSIW
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Dec 06, 2019 |
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A Little More German | YSIW
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Nov 22, 2019 |
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I Know A Little German | YSIW
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Nov 08, 2019 |
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Digging Up Some Fossil Words | YSIW
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Oct 25, 2019 |
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Prefixes Leave Us Plussed | YSIW
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Oct 10, 2019 |
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Did 'They' Say It Wrong? | YSIW
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Sep 27, 2019 |
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Precision In Language | YSIW
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Sep 13, 2019 |
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Which-Hunting: Throwing Out The Rules! | YSIW
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Aug 30, 2019 |
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Do-Gooders | YSIW
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Aug 16, 2019 |
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When It Comes To Hypercorrectiveness, Woe Are We | YSIW
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Aug 02, 2019 |
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Strong Verbs! | YSIW
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Jul 19, 2019 |
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So... | YSIW
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Jul 05, 2019 |
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An Avalanche Of Eggcorns! | YSIW
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Jun 21, 2019 |
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You're Saying It... Right? | YSIW
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Jun 07, 2019 |
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We've Entered A Language Penumbra | YSIW
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May 24, 2019 |
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With These Words, Maybe We Shouldn't Try | YSIW
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May 10, 2019 |
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It's Time For A Little Housekeeping | YSIW
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Apr 26, 2019 |
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Sufferin' Succotash! The Tricky Double 'C' | YSIW
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Apr 12, 2019 |
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Hyperbole & The Magic 'E'| YSIW
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Mar 29, 2019 |
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When 'Jive' Doesn't 'Jibe' In Language | YSIW
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Mar 15, 2019 |
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It's Your Prerogative, But You're Saying It Wrong.
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Mar 01, 2019 |
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Tortuous Conversations Are Torturous | YSIW
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Feb 15, 2019 |
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Wait. It's Not 'Spitting Image'? | YSIW
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Feb 01, 2019 |
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Rule Breakers | YSIW
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Jan 18, 2019 |
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Clapboard: Say vs. Spell | YSIW
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Jan 04, 2019 |
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Octopus x 2 = ? | YSIW
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Dec 21, 2018 |
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Is Pronunciation Your Forte? | YSIW
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Dec 07, 2018 |
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When In Gotham... | YSIW
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Nov 23, 2018 |
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Bruschetta. How Do You Say It? | YSIW
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Nov 09, 2018 |
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And Speaking Of Segue... | YSIW
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Oct 26, 2018 |
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Draught: Are You Saying It Wrong?
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Oct 12, 2018 |
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Sherbet: Are You Saying It Wrong?
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Sep 28, 2018 |
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Comptroller: Are You Saying It Wrong?
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Sep 14, 2018 |
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Moët. Are You Saying It Wrong?
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Aug 31, 2018 |
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Introducing: You're Saying It Wrong
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Aug 24, 2018 |