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Episode 100: How did we get here?	Word Matters	22:08
Do we repeat ourselves? Very well then, we repeat ourselves.	Word Matters	13:48
Hackneyed Phrases, Both Old and New	Word Matters	14:55
Tips for Frenchifying Your French	Word Matters	21:20
Eggcorns, Mondegreens, and Spoonerisms—Oh My!	Word Matters	27:25
Traveling Words: Luggage, Baggage, and the Recombobulation Station	Word Matters	18:50
Skunked Words	Word Matters	20:35
When Dictionaries Drop Words	Word Matters	25:38
Wordle Does Not Make Us Nauseous	Word Matters	17:39
The Invention of the Modern Dictionary	Word Matters	33:40
An Interview with Jacques Bailly, Official Pronouncer for Scripps National Spelling Bee	Word Matters	27:55
Nashe's 8 Types of Drunkards Includes No Octopi	Word Matters	25:24
Will 'ect.' become an acceptable spelling of 'etc.'? And if it does, will that be unexplainable or merely inexplicable?	Word Matters	25:49
Corrections, Clarifications, and Grave Transgressions	Word Matters	16:28
Uncommon Opposites	Word Matters	16:40
George Orwell's 'Politics and the English Language'	Word Matters	28:42
Linguistic Double Dipping	Word Matters	18:23
All About Abbreviations	Word Matters	16:40
The History of 'Whistleblower'	Word Matters	18:55
What does it mean to be 'at large'?	Word Matters	17:35
Dictionary Arcana	Word Matters	21:37
A Pair of Suffixes and The History of 'Ditto'	Word Matters	21:05
On Secretly Gendered Language	Word Matters	16:12
How to Order Adjectives	Word Matters	15:04
When Nouns Act Like Adjectives	Word Matters	15:33
Dipping Into the Mailbag: 'Yeet,' 'Typeface' vs. 'Font,' and 'Lo and Behold'	Word Matters	20:34
The History of the English Language (The Podcast)	Word Matters	17:41
Words That Began as Metaphors	Word Matters	17:32
Inside Our Citation Files	Word Matters	22:10
Getting Philosophical About the Dictionary	Word Matters	18:05
The Newest Words in the Dictionary	Word Matters	28:30
The Year in Words 2021	Word Matters	27:13
Our Word of the Year 2021	Word Matters	21:10
Researching Slang (with Ben Zimmer)	Word Matters	31:04
Why Is There No 'N' in 'Restaurateur'?	Word Matters	21:50
'Decimate': Use It However You Want	Word Matters	22:03
What It Means to 'Call an Audible'	Word Matters	21:02
'Sneaked' vs. 'Snuck'	Word Matters	11:18
The Etymology of Insults	Word Matters	18:45
How Words Are Dropped from the Dictionary	Word Matters	16:00

Episode 100: How did we get here?

Word Matters

22:08

Do we repeat ourselves? Very well then, we repeat ourselves.

Word Matters

13:48

Hackneyed Phrases, Both Old and New

Word Matters

14:55

Tips for Frenchifying Your French

Word Matters

21:20