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The Allusionist
The Allusionist
Helen Zaltzman

Adventures in language with Helen Zaltzman. TheAllusionist.org

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Episodes

201. Singlish

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

12 Oct 2024 · 35 minutes
Tranquillusionist: Ex-Constellations

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

28 Sep 2024 · 30 minutes
200. 200th episode celebratory quiz!

I can scarce believe that I've made 200 episodes of this show, but here we are! To celebrate, here is... more

13 Sep 2024 · 45 minutes
199. 199 ideas that I hadn't made into podcasts yet

Next episode is the 200th, therefore this is the 199th. I raid the 66 pages of ideas for episodes I... more

30 Aug 2024 · 35 minutes
198. Queer Arab Glossary

Since 2019, Marwan Kaabour has been collecting Arabic slang words used by and about queer people, first for the online... more

12 Aug 2024 · 38 minutes
197. Word Play 7: Word Sport

At the Scripps National Spelling Bee, behind the spectacle of kids vying to be champion spellers, a whole lot of... more

30 Jun 2024 · 40 minutes
196. Word Play 6: Beeing

I went to the 2024 Scripps National Spelling Bee, to marvel at kids spelling words I had mostly never even... more

10 Jun 2024 · 58 minutes
195. Word Play 5: 100 Pages of Solvitude

Cain's Jawbone, a murder mystery cryptic puzzle novella in the form of 100 pages presented in the wrong order, has... more

28 May 2024 · 33 minutes
194. Word Play 4: Good Grids

Exciting things have been happening with crossword puzzles in the US: more constructors, more outlets to get puzzles published, clues... more

13 May 2024 · 46 minutes
193. Word Play 3: Lemon Demon

AJ Jacobs makes The Puzzler podcast, wrote The Puzzler book, and sometimes turns his whole life into a puzzle. He... more

23 Apr 2024 · 51 minutes
The Allusionist
201. Singlish
The Allusionist