podictionary

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• Brick – Podictionary Word of the Day

  
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  iTunes users can subscribe to this podcast In his play Measure for Measure Shakespeare makes mention of a garden surrounded by a brick wall. By his time the word brick had been part of the English language for almost 200 years. It seems to have been brought to England by Flemish construction workers ...
  4 days ago

• Glass – Podictionary Word of the Day

  
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  iTunes users can subscribe to this podcast Glass is an example of a word that has shattered into lots of meanings we currently recognize but also with many earlier and forgotten etymological branches. In English the word shows up well over 1100 years ago in the works attributed to King Alfred the Great. ...
  1 week ago

• Ketchup – Podictionary Word of the Day

  
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  iTunes users can subscribe to this podcast There’s no other kinds once you’ve tasted the brine of pickled fish. That seems to have been the feeling of sailors who’d been exposed to a tasty kind of sauce during their voyages to Malaysia. According to most dictionaries the Malaysians appear to have ...
  2 weeks ago

• Podictionary Interview – Philip Durkin

  
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  iTunes users can subscribe to this podcast This is a special podictionary episode in which I interview Philip Durkin, the Principal Etymologist for The Oxford English Dictionary . I contacted Dr. Durkin because his book The Oxford Guide to Etymology was recently released in North America and he was ...
  3 weeks ago

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