That's What They Say

By Anne Curzan, Rebecca Kruth

That's What They Say is a weekly segment on Michigan Public that explores our changing language. Each week University of Michigan English Professor Anne Curzan will discuss why we say what we say with... more

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The podcast currently has 377 episodes available.

That's What They Say episodes:

February 28, 2025 TWTS: Whenever you say "whenever"
Not all of us use the word 'whenever' in exactly the same way, and people are noticing.
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February 22, 2025 TWTS: One hundred is worth a hundred
It’s 100% true that people online are asking about sentences like, “I got an a hundred on the test.”
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6min
February 17, 2025 TWTS: Not all sounds resonate
The way some people use "resonate" doesn't resonate with all of our listeners.
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6min
February 10, 2025 TWTS: When a sweep gets clean
We can sweep the floor, sweep the board, sweep the stakes, sweep the series – and maybe it will even be called a "clean sweep."
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5min
February 03, 2025 TWTS: May as well get comfortable with "comfortability"
While you may not find “comfortability” in many standard dictionaries yet, it is out there in circulation with “comfortableness.”
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6min
January 25, 2025 TWTS: If you find “the lurch,” don’t stick around
Sometimes we’re left in the lurch. It’s probably fair to say that most of us don’t know where that lurch is.
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5min
January 18, 2025 TWTS: Where did that pit in your stomach come from?
It appears that some of those bad or uneasy feelings we may feel in the pit of our stomach have become a pit in our stomach.
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6min
January 13, 2025 TWTS: The American Dialect Society's 2024 Word of the Year
It's that time again. With 2024 behind us, we can vote on the word of the year.
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6min
January 06, 2025 TWTS: When language gets spicy
We can pepper our food or pepper our speech. If the mood strikes us, we can be peppy in a pep rally sort of way.
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6min
December 29, 2024 TWTS: There are reasons to use "there are" before a plural, and there's reasons to use "there's"
There's examples all over the the place of people using "there's" before a plural noun. In fact, we just gave you one.
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5min

FAQs about That's What They Say:

How many episodes does That's What They Say have?

The podcast currently has 377 episodes available.

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