Ologies with Alie Ward

Ologies with Alie Ward

Etymology (WORD ORIGINS) with Helen Zaltzman of The Allusionist Podcast

March 5, 20191 hr

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The brilliant and dazzling Helen Zaltzman, host of The Allusionist podcast and 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 parents, babies wearing glasses, Greek kimonos, the romance of languages and the fundamental truth that language is always changi

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