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
We get back to one of our favorite topics: Words that sound a lot like other words but have totally different meanings ..read more
You're Saying It Wrong
1w ago
We look at some words that we think are related to other words, but actually aren't. Except sometimes they are ..read more
You're Saying It Wrong
2w ago
We look at some "rules" of the language that were mostly just made up so people could feel like they were speaking proper English ..read more
You're Saying It Wrong
3w ago
We run through some particularly confusing grammar mistakes and how sometimes we might think we’re saying one thing when we’re really saying another ..read more
You're Saying It Wrong
1M ago
We run through a few of the many, many English words that contain silent letters and some of the baffling reasons we pronounce those words the way we do ..read more
You're Saying It Wrong
1M ago
We dig into why certain words are spelled ridiculously thanks to a bunch of scholars a few hundred years ago who got a little too nutso about making everything look Latin ..read more
You're Saying It Wrong
1M ago
Some of us like to be rule breakers, but here are a few rules of the English language we can’t help but follow. And we probably don’t even know they exist ..read more
You're Saying It Wrong
1M ago
We look at what happens when we approach non-English words with a little too much gusto, and how exactly we should be saying foreign words so that we don’t sound silly (a tall order for some of us ..read more
You're Saying It Wrong
2M ago
We look at unconscious ways we follow the rules of English by doubling sounds and words, and how meanings of words can change when we say them twice. Now: are you confused? Or are you confused confused ..read more