The Secret Life of Words: English Words and Their Origins
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36 Lectures
30 minutes/lecture
1. Winning Words, Banished Words
19. The b in Debt—Meddling in Spelling
2. The Life of a Word, from Birth to Death
20. Of Mice, Men, and Y’All
3. The Human Hands behind Dictionaries
21. I’m Good … Or Am I Well?
4. Treasure Houses, Theft, and Traps
22. How Snuck Sneaked In
5. Yarn and Clues—New Word Meanings
23. Um, Well, Like, You Know
6. Smog, Mob, Bling—New Words
24. Wicked Cool—The Irreverence of Slang
7. “Often” versus “Offen”—Pronunciation
25. Boy Toys and Bad Eggs—Slangy Wordplay
8. Fighting over Zippers
26. Spinster, Bachelor, Guy, Dude
9. Opening the Early English Word-Hoard
27. Firefighters and Freshpersons
10. Safe and Sound—The French Invasion
28. A Slam Dunk—The Language of Sports
11. Magnifical Dexterity—Latin and Learning
29. Fooling Around—The Language of Love
12. Chutzpah to Pajamas—World Borrowings
30. Gung Ho—The Language of War
13. The Pop/Soda/Coke Divide
31. Filibustering—The Language of Politics
14. Maths, Wombats, and Les Bluejeans
32. LOL—The Language of the Internet
15. Foot and Pedestrian—Word Cousins
33. #$@%!—Forbidden Words
16. Desultory Somersaults—Latin Roots
34. Couldn’t (or Could) Care Less
17. Analogous Prologues—Greek Roots
35. Musquirt and Other Lexical Gaps
18. The Tough Stuff of English Spelling
36. Playing Fast and Loose with Words
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