• 8 minutes 44 seconds
    10. Good my lord - 02_08_2018, 16.12
    The phrase 'good my lord' is the topic of this episode, which looks in general at 'words in curious orders and combinations'.
    3 August 2018, 10:17 am
  • 20 minutes 21 seconds
    9. Eyes - 02_08_2018, 15.32
    The episode is all about punctuation, and begins with Shakespeare's sentence 'Eyes, do you see!'. Notice the exclamation mark.
    3 August 2018, 10:16 am
  • 15 minutes
    8. Why - 02_08_2018, 14.36
    The episode looks at some words beginning with 'wh-' which are used to ask questions, like 'what' and 'when'. Most attention is given to 'why'.
    3 August 2018, 10:14 am
  • 12 minutes 21 seconds
    7. Fathom - 02_08_2018, 11.32
    The general theme of this episode is 'units of measurement', and we begin with Shakespeare's word 'fathom'.
    3 August 2018, 10:12 am
  • 12 minutes 31 seconds
    6. Fardel- 02_08_2018, 11.09
    Shakespeare's word 'fardel' is the starting-point for this episode, which also looks at the topic of 'suffixes'.
    3 August 2018, 10:10 am
  • 14 minutes 33 seconds
    5. Blesseth- 02_08_2018, 10.49
    This episode's word is 'blessed'. We look at the general theme of 'language contact and language change'.
    3 August 2018, 10:09 am
  • 16 minutes 55 seconds
    4. Shrewd - 31_07_2018, 14.42
    The starting-point is the word 'shrewd'. We also look at how words can start off meaning something nasty, and end up meaning something nice.
    3 August 2018, 10:07 am
  • 17 minutes 37 seconds
    3. Pandar - 31_07_2018, 11.39
    This episode's word is 'panda' (spelt 'pander' today. The episode also looks at the theme of 'proper and common nouns'.
    3 August 2018, 10:04 am
  • 25 minutes 13 seconds
    2. Discandied - 31_07_2018, 11.10
    In this episode the Shakespeare word is 'discandied', and we also discuss the 'death of words'.
    3 August 2018, 9:57 am
  • 14 minutes 33 seconds
    1. Bully - 31_07_2018, 10.16
    The episode starts with Shakespeare's use of the word 'bully. It then goes on to talk about 'beliefs about word origins'.
    3 August 2018, 9:29 am
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