This podcast is all about words. It has a focus on explaining the history of weird words and expressions.
Have you ever wondered why people describe giving up drinking as "going on the wagon"?
Relevant Episodes:
10-29-07 Dangerous Books
6-28-08 Paper to Pixels
8-11-08 Language Headlines (there are a number of eps with this title)
1-31-09 Riddled with riddles
6-6-09 Falling off the wagon
6-24-09 Serial Comma Usage
9-5-9 Texting, A Language Expert's Perspective
3-5-10 Write it Right (Ambrose Bierce)
1-22-10 Jack Lynch
4-24-10 Self Selected Reading
7-24-10 A Whole' Nother (Style Guide)
7-7-12 Forensic Linguists
10-27 12 FANBOYS and beginnings
9-17-13 Up Goer Five
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