Ologies with Alie Ward

Ologies with Alie Ward

Etymology (WORD ORIGINS) Encore with Helen Zaltzman

August 22, 20231 hr 6 min

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The brilliant and dazzling Helen Zaltzman pops in with some new asides in this encore episode of Ologies. Helen, host of the podcasts The Allusionist, Veronica Mars Investigations and Answer Me This, and a person who technically for a living researches the origins of language and thus is an etymologist, visits Alie's apartment to chat about various word origins, gender in language, the Bible a.k.a. The Oxford English Dictionary, origins of the filthiest slang, emoji decoding, mediocrity, step pa

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Ologies with Alie Ward

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