That's What They Say

By Anne Curzan, Rebecca Hector

Funner, snuck, and LOL are all things that we're hearing people say these days.That's What They Say is a weekly segment on Michigan Public that explores our changing language. University of Michigan E... more

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The podcast currently has 445 episodes available.

That's What They Say episodes:

June 22, 2026 TWTS: One rank, two pronunciations
You say "lieutenant," I say “leftenant” but let’s not call the whole thing off.
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June 12, 2026 TWTS: The wonky journey of "wonky"
There’s more than one way to be wonky, and not all of them are bad.
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6min
June 05, 2026 TWTS: Are we canceling adverbs?
Adverbs don’t always get a lot of love, captured powerfully in the writing tip “Abolish the adverbs.”
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6min
May 29, 2026 TWTS: Scrimping, skimping, and the degrees of frugality
We scrimp and we save, and we skimp and we still save, which makes one wonder whether scrimping is different from skimping
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5min
May 22, 2026 TWTS: From fishmongers to warmongers - and warmongerers
Cheesemongers sell cheese, and gossipmongers usually start the gossip or spread it, rather than sell it.
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6min
May 15, 2026 TWTS: The death of doornails
Many of us don’t talk about doornails very often, but sometimes we will when things are really, well, dead.
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May 08, 2026 TWTS: When "f" and "v" were sort of one
If you know how the sound "f" worked in Old English, it suddenly isn’t mysterious why the "f" in "leaf" turns into a "v" in the plural form "leaves."
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6min
May 01, 2026 TWTS: "Peak" felt fine until it was "peaked"
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April 24, 2026 TWTS: Why no one is "gonna Pittsburgh"
If I say I’m gonna do it, I don’t necessarily mean I’m headed out the door right now to do it.
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6min
April 20, 2026 TWTS: From "6-7" to sixes and sevens
2025 had lots of people talking about sixes and sevens, but not in the loose ends kind of way.
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6min

FAQs about That's What They Say:

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

The podcast currently has 445 episodes available.

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