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Your New Favorite Word

by Jamis and Tessa Buck

A podcast that celebrates wordiness, and nerdiness, and sometimes plain absurdiness!

Episodes

Episode 1.05: Following "Flabbergast"

21m · Published 27 Apr 07:00

Starting from the same word, Jamis and Tessa follow very different research paths. Jamis plays with lexical ambiguity, while Tessa shows us the glories of verbing, aka “denominalization”.

Episode 1.05: Following "Flabbergast"

21m · Published 27 Apr 07:00

Starting from the same word, Jamis and Tessa follow very different research paths. Jamis plays with lexical ambiguity, while Tessa shows us the glories of verbing, aka “denominalization”.

Episode 1.04: "Splenetic" and "Heterography"

20m · Published 20 Apr 07:00

Tessa has “the guts” to dive deep into the connection between emotion words and bodily organs. Jamis talks about homonyms : words that sound or look the same, but have different meanings, and is “kind” enough to introduce several different “kinds”.

Episode 1.04: "Splenetic" and "Heterography"

20m · Published 20 Apr 07:00

Tessa has “the guts” to dive deep into the connection between emotion words and bodily organs. Jamis talks about homonyms: words that sound or look the same, but have different meanings, and is “kind” enough to introduce several different “kinds”.

Episode 1.03: "Maze" and "Backronym"

16m · Published 13 Apr 07:00

Jamis navigates the twisty little passages of the etymology of the word “maze”, and the lexically frolicsome Tessa explores one type of false etymology, known as a “backronym”.

Episode 1.03: "Maze" and "Backronym"

16m · Published 13 Apr 07:00

Jamis navigates the twisty little passages of the etymology of the word “maze”, and the lexically frolicsome Tessa explores one type of false etymology, known as a “backronym”.

Episode 1.02: "Kitty-Corner" and "Hobo"

12m · Published 06 Apr 07:00

Jamis and Tessa are back, with Tessa exploring the web of words around kitty-corner , and Jamis unearthing the argot of the hobo .

Episode 1.02: "Kitty-Corner" and "Hobo"

12m · Published 06 Apr 07:00

Jamis and Tessa are back, with Tessa exploring the web of words around kitty-corner, and Jamis unearthing the argot of the hobo.

Episode 1.01: "Quarantine" and "Skedaddle"

10m · Published 30 Mar 07:00

In this very first episode of Your New Favorite Word we start to “c” things a different way, and change “reaction” into “creation”. Jamis and Tessa introduce you to the history of the words quarantine and skedaddle, and discover some other fun new words along the way!

Episode 1.01: "Quarantine" and "Skedaddle"

10m · Published 30 Mar 07:00

In this very first episode of Your New Favorite Word we start to “c” things a different way, and change “reaction” into “creation”. Jamis and Tessa introduce you to the history of the words quarantine and skedaddle , and discover some other fun new words along the way!

Your New Favorite Word has 70 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 20:05:06. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on November 27th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on April 7th, 2024 05:18.