podictionary

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• Midwife – Podictionary Word of the Day

  
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  iTunes users can subscribe to this podcast A midwife is called a midwife not because the midwife is in the middle of anything, nor because during the birth of children the midwife is helping the wife as opposed to the husband. It is pretty uncommon to find men who are midwives but I guess they do exist. ...
  6 days ago

• Net – Podictionary Word of the Day

  
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  iTunes users can subscribe to this podcast Once upon a time my mother was knitting a style of sweater that had many open holes in the weave. My father looked at it and said “no wonder it’s going so fast, it’s mostly air.” That’s the thing about nets too, they’re mostly air; but it’s what’s ...
  1 week ago

• 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 ...
  2 weeks 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. ...
  3 weeks ago

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