You're Saying It Wrong
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From KMUW Studios, You're Saying It Wrong is a podcast that looks at what we get wrong and what we sometimes get right when it comes to this English language. Hosted by KMUW's Fletcher Powell, each episode features a conversation with the sister and brother who wrote the book on it.
You're Saying It Wrong
6d ago
A listener question prompts us to think about words like rehabilitate, revamp, and nonplussed, and whether we can be plussed about habilitating and vamping, or if we're just talking nonsense ..read more
You're Saying It Wrong
2w ago
Latin may be dead, but we still use it every day. This week we look at some common Latin phrases and what they actually mean ..read more
You're Saying It Wrong
3w ago
We know what a berry is, we know what a cranberry is, but what the heck is a "cran?" We enter the sometimes murky world of the cranberry morpheme ..read more
You're Saying It Wrong
1M ago
As we head into summer, we'll take a look back to see if we can remember what we've learned over the past year ..read more
You're Saying It Wrong
1M ago
After this year's thrilling spell-off in the National Spelling Bee, we try to tease out the definitions of some of the words that won the contest ..read more
You're Saying It Wrong
1M ago
This week, we're talking about some of the very oldest words in the English language, and how little some of them have changed over thousands of years ..read more
You're Saying It Wrong
1M ago
We're looking at words that were made by smooshing together other words, but it all happened so long ago that we completely forgot about it ..read more
You're Saying It Wrong
2M ago
We're dipping back into common rhetorical devices today, and talking about how they can be used to win people to your side... or at least make them laugh a little bit ..read more
You're Saying It Wrong
2M ago
We look at some very old words that used to mean something, but that we now only see in very specific instances ..read more
You're Saying It Wrong
2M ago
Some of us (Fletcher) can never keep straight what, exactly, the subjunctive is, so fortunately Kathy and Ross are here to remind us ..read more