Butter No Parsnips

Hungry? This episode isn’t for you. Join Emily and Gross Kyle as they separate myth from fact from food, learn about how the Romans really threw sorority parties (Bring Your Own Bull), and discover that Jesus might have had some Dionysian inspiration.

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Main theme and accompanying themes by Kyle Imperatore

Produced by Seth Gliksman, Kyle Imperatore, and Emily Moyers

Kyle and Emily discover a simple, relatable way to explain difficult medical concepts, discuss an impressively long-running publication, and review the more doubtfully long-running life of one Thomas Parr.

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Celebrate Women’s History Month the Butter No Parsnips way: by remembering how men have been, historically, big jerks. Listen as Kyle tactfully connects the dots between cavil and another familiar accusatory word, Emily is transported to John Wayne Wycliffe’s Old English West, and the right famous Queen of Navarre finally gets some retribution for “vertuous women of all ages”.

You can also celebrate by entering to win a free t-shirt with an original design by our logo designer Iris Edmunds. All this week, we'll be releasing posts that celebrate iconic women in lexicography. To enter, all you have to do is follow us @butternoparsnipspodcast on Instagram, share at least one of the posts to your story, and tag us in it! By doing so, you enter to win a shirt inspired by another episode of ours with a feminist bent.

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This week, Emily presents some of history's most vexing questions, Greek philosophers find that ignorance really is bliss, and Kyle tries to define some monstrous rhetorical terminology.

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This episode is out of this world! Join Emily and Kyle as they take a lawyerly look at the stars, travel to space in the worst modes of transportation imaginable, and meet their new ten-legged overlords.

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This decidedly word-centric episode sees Kyle and Emily talk about the organic evolutions of words, the slightly less organic coinage of words, and the OED’s older brother NED. Give it a listen, for the nonce!

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In today’s chymical chat, Emily and Kyle discover the GOATest goats, try out the newest (godless) fad exercise, and, somehow, ruminate on the origin of all of existence.

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Kyle and Emily are joined by the not-at-all mephitic Michael Stephan, pagerunner for @tautonyms on Instagram, who helps Kyle out with a tough word and then delivers a few of his own as he guides our hosts through the animal world of the doubly-named.

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Main theme and accompanying themes by Kyle Imperatore

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In this hearty and humorous presentation, Emily and Kyle look at a few early English dictionaries, learn a forgotten word that never really took off, and read the decidedly difficult writings of one Lorenzo Altisonant.

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Main theme and accompanying themes by Kyle Imperatore

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Join Kyle and Emily as they take a tour of Roma (Italy and Texas), discover the real reason marble statues are missing their noses, and visit the tragic resting place of one of Shakespeare’s most tragic families.

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Main theme and accompanying themes by Kyle Imperatore

Produced by Seth Gliksman, Kyle Imperatore, and Emily Moyers