It’s our 100th episode, which seemed like a good occasion to answer a listener question of a more personal type: how... more

A listener questions a tautology in one of our definitions and starts us off on a discussion of all types... more

Writing advice often includes hackneyed phrases we’re supposed to avoid. The phrases we're warned against today are different from the... more

Whether you're hoping to improve your high school French or just order that croissant with more confidence, we have some... more

A discussion of various kinds of slips of the tongue and errors of the ear. Hosted by Emily Brewster, Ammon Shea,... more

In the disconcerting event that your travels by air deliver you, but not what you've packed, to your destination, you... more

Sometimes a word, over time, will take on a meaning that doesn’t play very nicely with its original meaning, leaving... more

We’ve discussed how words come to be entered in our dictionaries before, but today we’re going to talk about removing... more

Some listeners want to know if working with words professionally makes a dictionary editor better, or worse, at Wordle, and... more

The earliest dictionaries were the fruit of one person’s labor, but the 1864 Webster's Unabridged changed all of that. Hosted by... more