This week Emily and Kyle answer such beastly questions as: What does it mean to have a parrot on your coat of arms? Who gets to be the Popinjay King? and What are the best (and worst) animal sounds?

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Emily discovers the variety of meanings a three-letter word can have, everything’s snappy and, just, “Blix”, you know, and Clapham and Dwyer take us back to the era of Gugnuncs with their classic vaudeville routine.

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On this terrifying episode of Butter No Parsnips, your hosts Kyle Imperatore and Emily Moyers are joined by the spirit of Seth Gliksman as he cracks open the sacred Lexiconicon to peer deep into the weird word world. Through divination and conjuration and prestidigitation, Seth shares the hidden mysteries of anagrams gone by before the Lexiconicon beckons him back to the realm whence he came.

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In our first ever guest episode, Kyle and Emily are joined by fellow word enthusiast Jackie (@jackiequaranto) to discuss Spanish rascals, a beloved Australian children’s book, and a questionable career move for several actors.

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Tantivy, soho! Saddle up and ride tantivy with yokels Kyle and Emily as they discover the Lexicon Balatronicum, flashback to slander the likeness of an old friend, and sing their little hearts out (if you don’t leave this one humming, you’ve got no groove).

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Kyle might find it hard to believe that this word has multiple meanings--but Emily reveals how “quincunx” relates to a short-lived Roman coin, a bizarre horticultural book, and even a common board game piece.

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In this third of a line of ‘y’-ending words: Emily describes the day-to-day of Mayor of Thebes and man-about-tomb, Senefer, Kyle introduces the sport of battledore (not a colosseum-style fight to the death), and the two discuss the meaning of some pneumatic mnemonics.

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Kyle twiddles his fingers in excitement as Emily deciphers the Middle English writings of a female saint, airs the grievances of a 17th century French incel, and finds a symbol of empowerment in the most unlikely of places.

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Strap in for the long haul as Kyle takes Emily on a deep-dive into the hidden intentions of the Hermetic tradition, the biography of real ladies-man Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (yes, he’s definitely single, trust me), and a seriously strange suffix.

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Emily brings Kyle the oldest word this podcast has seen, Stoic hero Quintus Columbo McCarthy takes on the world’s greatest injustices, and Jon Voight reveals his most famous catchphrase.

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