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 421 episodes available.

That's What They Say episodes:

March 10, 2024 TWTS: An oft overlooked double possessive
Lots of people don't like the redundancy in "irregardless." However, no one's fussy about the redundancy in a phrase like "a friend of mine."
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5min
March 03, 2024 TWTS: An ouster for the ouster
An ouster can be an act of ousting, or it can be the one who does the ousting. But we seem to have opted for one of those meanings over the other.
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6min
February 25, 2024 TWTS: Need something? Manifest it
At this point, we can manifest our dream future, a good grade on a exam, or even a parking spot.
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5min
February 18, 2024 TWTS: "Curry favor" comes from a horse (of course, of course)
Currying favor has everything to do with flattery and horses, and nothing to do with food.
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5min
February 11, 2024 TWTS: Known liars better hope their pants never literally catch fire
There’s a children’s rhyme that involves liars and pants on fire and various types of wires. Now, we can say things are “pants on fire” false.
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5min
February 04, 2024 TWTS: If or whether you should use "if" or "whether"
If you worry about if or whether you should use "if" or "whether" in exactly this construction, you're not alone.
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5min
January 28, 2024 TWTS: Intensifiers are so intense
It's been really dreary and so icy outside lately. It's awfully tempting to wear super cozy clothes and use lots of intensifiers.
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6min
January 21, 2024 TWTS: Badgered badgers badger
Badgers live underground and are nocturnal, so we don't see them running around all that often. Somehow though, they're associated with a negative, annoying verb.
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6min
January 14, 2024 TWTS: The American Dialect Society's 2023 Word of the Year
The year 2023 is officially in the record books. As part of taking stock, the members of the American Dialect Society met to consider what we've all been up to linguistically.
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6min
January 07, 2024 TWTS: A rule about which we should be asking questions
Many of us were taught the rule that we shouldn’t end a sentence with a preposition, and honestly this is a rule we should be asking questions about.
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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 421 episodes available.

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