Words We Love

Red Pen: A Grammar Podcast

And a few we hate. And, for some reason, a few that are German.

Questions/comments/ideas/snark go in the comments. We love you.

Thing 1: Ryan Davis

Thing 2: Mike Laws

Producer: Amanda Darrach
Show Notes:

The Staten Island Ferry Schedule (But sign your marriage license on dry land.)
Out of Office podcast
Phonesthemes
@germanonliners

अध्यायों

1. Words We Love (00:00:00)

2. Mike played hockey against Anthony Weiner (00:00:25)

3. Why you should track your favorite words (00:04:36)

4. Ryan: ‘Charlatans,’ the classy grifters (00:06:20)

5. Amanda: The ‘haar’ and Groundskeeper Willie (00:10:34)

6. Mike: ‘Mellifluous,’ the sound of sweetness (00:14:46)

7. Ryan: ‘Funicular’ or ferry? (00:17:44)

8. Amanda: Ya wee ‘scrag’ (00:22:35)

9. Mike: ‘Eloquent’ and phonesthemes (00:25:48)

10. Mike: So ‘awkward’ (00:29:10)

11. Ryan: ‘Nightmare’ and our collective sleep paralysis (00:31:45)

12. Hall of shame: Content, interact, interface (00:36:15)

13. Worst of the worst: Moist (00:42:25)

14. Favorite foreign words: Grief bacon, Schadenfreude, Unendlichkeit (00:45:41)