| 1. |
Introducing Word Matters |
Aug. 4, 2020 |
| 2. |
'Irregardless': You Don't Have to Like It |
Aug. 12, 2020 |
| 3. |
Ice Tea and Semantic Drift |
Aug. 13, 2020 |
| 4. |
A Collection of Obscure Words That You Might Find Useful |
Aug. 14, 2020 |
| 5. |
How do you even pronounce 'antennae' anyway? |
Aug. 19, 2020 |
| 6. |
'Scofflaw' and Inventing Words for Money |
Aug. 26, 2020 |
| 7. |
6. Sorry, But Shakespeare Didn't Create That Word |
Sept. 2, 2020 |
| 8. |
7. 'Matriculate': A Word on the Move |
Sept. 9, 2020 |
| 9. |
8. A Collection of Obscure Words That Are Pretty Much Useless |
Sept. 16, 2020 |
| 10. |
9. In Defense of 'Like' |
Sept. 23, 2020 |
| 11. |
How *Not* to Start a Sentence |
Sept. 30, 2020 |
| 12. |
11. Can something be 'very unique'? |
Oct. 7, 2020 |
| 13. |
12. A Collection of Obscure Words for People Who Annoy You |
Oct. 14, 2020 |
| 14. |
13. What's up with 'biweekly'? And Other Listener Questions |
Oct. 21, 2020 |
| 15. |
14. Everything Is 'Awesome.' Or is it? |
Oct. 28, 2020 |
| 16. |
15. Why are American and British English different? |
Nov. 4, 2020 |
| 17. |
16. 'Contact' and 'Impact': Acceptable verbs? |
Nov. 11, 2020 |
| 18. |
17. How to Read a Dictionary Entry |
Nov. 18, 2020 |
| 19. |
18. Is 'try and' a proper use? Plus More Listener Questions |
Nov. 25, 2020 |
| 20. |
19. The Word of the Year 2020 |
Nov. 30, 2020 |
| 21. |
20. Is it a '180' or a '360'? |
Dec. 9, 2020 |
| 22. |
21. Oops: Words Born Out of Mistakes |
Dec. 16, 2020 |
| 23. |
A Holiday Greeting |
Dec. 23, 2020 |
| 24. |
22. Words That Are Their Own Opposites |
Jan. 6, 2021 |
| 25. |
23. How the Ladybug Got Its Name |
Jan. 13, 2021 |
| 26. |
24. Questions from You |
Jan. 20, 2021 |
| 27. |
25. New Words in the Dictionary |
Jan. 27, 2021 |
| 28. |
How do you pronounce 'often'? |
Feb. 3, 2021 |
| 29. |
27. What's the Longest Word in the Dictionary? |
Feb. 10, 2021 |
| 30. |
28. The Onomatopoeia Episode |
Feb. 17, 2021 |
| 31. |
29. There Is No Such Thing as "The Dictionary" |
Feb. 24, 2021 |
| 32. |
30. How We Wrote Our Bilingual Dictionaries |
March 3, 2021 |
| 33. |
31. Why Is It Called an 'Adam's Apple'? |
March 10, 2021 |
| 34. |
32. The Story of the Backward Index |
March 17, 2021 |
| 35. |
33. Tracing the Origins of Famous Phrases |
March 24, 2021 |
| 36. |
34. What Is a 'Retronym'? |
March 31, 2021 |
| 37. |
35. 'Fewer' vs. 'Less' |
April 7, 2021 |
| 38. |
36. On Jane Austen's Use of 'Condescension' |
April 14, 2021 |
| 39. |
37. Can You End a Sentence with a Preposition? |
April 21, 2021 |
| 40. |
38. What Is a Learner's Dictionary? |
April 28, 2021 |
| 41. |
39. A Lexical History of 'Jazz' |
May 5, 2021 |
| 42. |
40. A 'Wicked' Good Episode |
May 12, 2021 |
| 43. |
Is it 'further' or 'farther'? |
May 19, 2021 |
| 44. |
The Language of Spy and Detective Stories |
May 26, 2021 |
| 45. |
The Words We Mispronounce |
June 2, 2021 |
| 46. |
Different Words for the Same Thing |
June 9, 2021 |
| 47. |
What is a word's 'first known use'? |
June 16, 2021 |
| 48. |
Is it 'pled' or 'pleaded'? |
June 23, 2021 |
| 49. |
A Totally Original History of 'Stereotype' |
June 30, 2021 |
| 50. |
The Story of a Trending Word |
July 7, 2021 |
| 51. |
Is 'vice versa' changing? & More Listener Questions |
July 14, 2021 |
| 52. |
The Political 'Dog Whistle': Loud and Clear |
July 21, 2021 |
| 53. |
The Invention of 'Introvert' (with Science Diction) |
July 28, 2021 |
| 54. |
All About Subject-Verb Agreement |
Aug. 4, 2021 |
| 55. |
Who was this Webster guy, anyway? |
Aug. 11, 2021 |
| 56. |
The Brothers Merriam: An Introduction |
Aug. 18, 2021 |
| 57. |
How Language Evolves (with Grammar Girl) |
Sept. 8, 2021 |
| 58. |
How We Approach Compound Words |
Sept. 15, 2021 |
| 59. |
'Possum' or 'Opossum'? |
Sept. 22, 2021 |
| 60. |
What's a folk etymology? |
Sept. 29, 2021 |
| 61. |
Taking an Ax—or Axe?—to the 'Podium' vs. 'Lectern' Debate |
Oct. 6, 2021 |
| 62. |
Words Named After Real People |
Oct. 13, 2021 |
| 63. |
How Words Are Dropped from the Dictionary |
Oct. 20, 2021 |
| 64. |
The Etymology of Insults |
Oct. 27, 2021 |
| 65. |
'Sneaked' vs. 'Snuck' |
Nov. 3, 2021 |
| 66. |
What It Means to 'Call an Audible' |
Nov. 10, 2021 |
| 67. |
'Decimate': Use It However You Want |
Nov. 17, 2021 |
| 68. |
Why Is There No 'N' in 'Restaurateur'? |
Nov. 24, 2021 |
| 69. |
Researching Slang (with Ben Zimmer) |
Dec. 1, 2021 |
| 70. |
Our Word of the Year 2021 |
Dec. 8, 2021 |
| 71. |
The Year in Words 2021 |
Dec. 15, 2021 |
| 72. |
The Newest Words in the Dictionary |
Jan. 5, 2022 |
| 73. |
Getting Philosophical About the Dictionary |
Jan. 12, 2022 |
| 74. |
Inside Our Citation Files |
Jan. 19, 2022 |
| 75. |
Words That Began as Metaphors |
Jan. 26, 2022 |
| 76. |
The History of the English Language (The Podcast) |
Feb. 2, 2022 |
| 77. |
Dipping Into the Mailbag: 'Yeet,' 'Typeface' vs. 'Font,' and 'Lo and Behold' |
Feb. 9, 2022 |
| 78. |
When Nouns Act Like Adjectives |
Feb. 16, 2022 |
| 79. |
How to Order Adjectives |
Feb. 23, 2022 |
| 80. |
On Secretly Gendered Language |
March 2, 2022 |
| 81. |
A Pair of Suffixes and The History of 'Ditto' |
March 9, 2022 |
| 82. |
Dictionary Arcana |
March 16, 2022 |
| 83. |
What does it mean to be 'at large'? |
March 23, 2022 |
| 84. |
The History of 'Whistleblower' |
March 30, 2022 |
| 85. |
All About Abbreviations |
April 6, 2022 |
| 86. |
Linguistic Double Dipping |
April 13, 2022 |
| 87. |
George Orwell's 'Politics and the English Language' |
April 20, 2022 |
| 88. |
Uncommon Opposites |
April 27, 2022 |
| 89. |
Corrections, Clarifications, and Grave Transgressions |
May 4, 2022 |
| 90. |
Will 'ect.' become an acceptable spelling of 'etc.'? And if it does, will that be unexplainable or merely inexplicable? |
May 11, 2022 |
| 91. |
Nashe's 8 Types of Drunkards Includes No Octopi |
May 18, 2022 |
| 92. |
An Interview with Jacques Bailly, Official Pronouncer for Scripps National Spelling Bee |
May 25, 2022 |
| 93. |
The Invention of the Modern Dictionary |
June 1, 2022 |
| 94. |
Wordle Does Not Make Us Nauseous |
June 8, 2022 |
| 95. |
When Dictionaries Drop Words |
June 15, 2022 |
| 96. |
Skunked Words |
June 22, 2022 |
| 97. |
Traveling Words: Luggage, Baggage, and the Recombobulation Station |
June 29, 2022 |
| 98. |
Eggcorns, Mondegreens, and Spoonerisms—Oh My! |
July 6, 2022 |
| 99. |
Tips for Frenchifying Your French |
July 13, 2022 |
| 100. |
Hackneyed Phrases, Both Old and New |
July 20, 2022 |
