Welcome to four letter word season! We're kicking off with one of the most versatile words: it can be a... more

Hello! It's me, your real imaginary friend, Helen Zaltzman. Someone wrote to me recently saying, “I haven't seen a new... more

Happy tenth birthday to this show! To celebrate, here's every randomly selected word from the dictionary from the first decade... more

It's the annual parade of Bonus Bits - things this year's guests said that I couldn't fit into their episodes,... more

In Lexicat part 1, we met the author Mary Robinette Kowal and her cat Elsie, and learned about how they... more

Elsie the cat has a set of 120 buttons programmed with words. She uses them to lie, swear, apologise, express... more

In 15th and 16th century Scotland, in the highest courts of the land, you'd find esteemed poets hurling insults at... more

There's so much more to say about Singlish after last episode that we're saying some more of it this episode.... more

"If you grow up being told that one of your first languages, Singlish, is actually a bad version of an... more

This is the Tranquillusionist, in which I, Helen Zaltzman, give your brain a break by temporarily supplanting your interior monologue... more