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175. Eurovision part 2

Oh, you thought the Eurovision Song Contest was about songs? Or a fun international TV event that...

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174. Eurovision part 1

There aren't many multilingual, multinational television shows that have been running for nearly...

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173. Death

"You can't redead the dead by you saying something shit," says Cariad Lloyd of Griefcast and...

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172. A Brief History of Brazilian Portuguese

"The myths, or the received wisdom, about Portuguese language in Brazil is that, of course we...

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171. Supplantation

Last episode, I mentioned that in London, Ontario, in 2019 a 9-year-old named Lyla Wheeler had...

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170. Actively Passive

Over the past few years, numerous products and places with the word 'plantation' in their names...

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169. The Box

Erwin Schrödinger is one of the "fathers of quantum mechanics". He also sexually abused children....

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168. Debuts

There’s been a recurring theme on the show over the years, of filling gaps in language, removing...

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167. Bonus 2022

What do the hippocampus, homophones, Little Women, worrying and egg hacks have in common? They...

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166. Fiona part 2

“I don't think that anyone should come away from this conversation not wanting to use the name...

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165. Fiona part 1

A lot of people assume that Fiona is a very old Scottish name, but the first known Scottish Fiona...

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164. Emergency

When is a war not a war? When the British Empire called it an 'emergency' so they didn't have to...

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163. Rhino Borked Guy

Provoked by current events, we've got three political eponyms for turmoiled times. Get ready for...

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162. Self-Help

Self-help is a multibillion dollar genre of books, and Kristen Meinzer and Jolenta Greenberg of...

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161. Sentiment

Empathy and kindness can be noble concepts in themselves, but as terms are thrown around enough...

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160. Coward

“Anxiety is the parrot sidekick that rides on my shoulder and occasionally squawks warnings in my...

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159. Bufflusionist

Grab your stake and crucifix pendant, we're going vampire-hunting! Well,...

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158. Creature Quiz

There's lots of fun etymology of creatures and a lot of fun etymology derived from creatures, and...

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Tranquillusionist: Australia's Big Things

This is the Tranquillusionist, in which I, Helen Zaltzman, say a load of deliberately boring...

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157. Queerbaiting

The term 'queerbaiting' has evolved from meaning entrapment to marketing ploy to drawing "queer...

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