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Word-Origin Wednesday

The Grammar Geek

Word-Origin Wednesday is the weekly podcast that walks you through a word origin in five minutes or less.

  • 4 minutes 43 seconds
    Ghost and Ghoul (Word-Origin Wednesday)
    "Ghost" is a pretty old word. "Ghoul," as an English word, not so much.
    30 October 2019, 11:33 am
  • 2 minutes 53 seconds
    October (Word-Origin Wednesday)
    The names of "October" and a few other months make a lot more sense if we look at Latin and the Roman calendar.
    23 October 2019, 11:50 am
  • 4 minutes 14 seconds
    Sympathy (Word-Origin Wednesday)
    The everyday meaning of "sympathy" has shifted over the years, but it's always had some connection to its Latin and Greek roots.
    16 October 2019, 11:21 am
  • 4 minutes 54 seconds
    Hysterical (Word-Origin Wednesday)
    Before it entered everyday English, "hysterical" was medical Latin.
    9 October 2019, 11:11 am
  • 4 minutes 6 seconds
    Autumn and Fall (Word-Origin Wednesday)
    Do you say "autumn" or "fall" to describe the season between summer and winter? Get the lowdown on the history of both words.
    2 October 2019, 12:21 pm
  • 3 minutes 37 seconds
    Dead Duck (Word-Origin Wednesday)
    "Dead" and "duck" go way back, but the term "dead duck" is only a couple of centuries old.
    25 September 2019, 12:24 pm
  • 3 minutes 29 seconds
    Landlubber (Word-Origin Wednesday)
    The often miswritten and mispronounced "landlubber" goes back a few centuries.
    18 September 2019, 12:22 pm
  • 3 minutes 54 seconds
    Nice (Word-Origin Wednesday)
    "Nice" has had at least a dozen definitions over the last few centuries.
    11 September 2019, 12:23 pm
  • 4 minutes 17 seconds
    Peruse (Word-Origin Wednesday)
    The Modern English "peruse" came from the Middle English "peruse" . . . or maybe it came from French.
    4 September 2019, 11:45 am
  • 4 minutes 3 seconds
    Factory And Manufacturing (Word-Origin Wednesday)
    With Labor Day approaching, let's look at "factory" and "manufacturing." They were both borrowed from Latin.
    28 August 2019, 12:48 pm
  • 4 minutes 11 seconds
    Escalate (Word-Origin Wednesday)
    "Escalate" is fairly new word, and the current definition has been around since just the 1950s.
    21 August 2019, 12:49 pm
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