The Common Errors in English Usage Podcast

The Common Errors in English Usage Podcast

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The Common Errors in English Usage Podcast episodes

  • Episode 49: More Commonly Confused Words

    This week we talk about commonly confused words, also previously discussed in episodes 39 and 45.

    https://wmjasco.com/podcasts/49-confused-3.mp3

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    Commonly confused expressions

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  • Episode 48: Swell (and other Fabulous Words)

    This week on the podcast we discuss words of enthusiasm like “huge,”“terrific,” and “fantastic,” including their history and sometimes-surprising shifts in meaning, in spite of what the Oxford English Dictionary might say about them.

    https://wmjasco.com/podcasts/48-swell.mp3

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    ABC report on Trump’s hands
    Tom Terrific
    Paul Brians’ post on “brilliant”
    “Thou Swell” performed by June Allyson
    Ella Fitzgerald sings “’S Wonderful”
    Judy Garland & Fred Astaire: “We’re a Couple of Swells”
    “You’re the Top” (with pictures!)

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  • Episode 47: Trump, the Name

    This week we pick up last week’s conversation about the names of the nominees; this time it’s all about Trump.

    https://wmjasco.com/podcasts/47-trump.mp3

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    Jumping the shark
    Make Donald Drumpf Again

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  • Episode 46: The Names of the Nominated (Part 1)

    What’s in a name? This week on the podcast we discuss the names Hillary, Pence, and Kaine.

    https://wmjasco.com/podcasts/46-hillary-pence-kaine.mp3

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    St. Hilarius (improv comedy troupe)
    Herb Caen

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  • Episode 45: More Words Often Confused

    This week we talk about Melania Trump’s plagiarism, labyrinths and mazes, and then discuss some more commonly confused words, previously discussed in episode 39.

    https://wmjasco.com/podcasts/45-confused.mp3

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    Is it plagiarism? Yes.
    The Labyrinth Society Web site

    Paula in her labyrinth:

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  • Episode 44: Bible Studies the Common Errors Way (Part 3)

    This week we conclude our discussion of commonly misunderstood or misread passages and phrases from The Bible.

    https://wmjasco.com/podcasts/44-bible3.mp3

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    Edward Hicks’ paintings
    Early arguments against anesthesia
    Alan Bennett: Take a Pew

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  • Episode 42: Bible Studies the Common Errors Way

    This week the topic is The Bible. We touch on its history and begin a conversation on some of its more famously misunderstood passages.

    https://wmjasco.com/podcasts/42-bible1.mp3

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    Through a mirror, darkly on the Common Errors in English Usage Web site
    Lyndon Baines Johnson and “Let us reason together”

     

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  • Episode 41: A History of American Comics (Part 2)

    This week we continue our discussion of the comic strips of American newspapers.

    https://wmjasco.com/podcasts/41-readingTheComics-2.mp3

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    Fearless Fosdick appears in Dick Tracy
    More on Fearless Fosdick
    IDW European Disney comics translations
    IDW Library of American comics

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  • Episode 40: A History of American Comics (Part 1)

    This week we take a break from English usage points and talk about one of Paul’s great interests, the comic strips of American newspapers. We discuss the early history.

    https://wmjasco.com/podcasts/40-readingTheComics-1.mp3

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    PhD Comics—A professor writes his e-mail
    IDW Publishing
    Fantagraphics
    Yellow journalism
    Toonerville Trolley cartoon
    John Alden Carpenter’s “Krazy Kat” ballet music

     

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