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The Common Errors in English Usage Podcast
By Paul BriansEducation
The Common Errors in English Usage Podcast episodes
- Episode 89: Troubleshooting Photography
This week we take a break from usage and language to get some tips from Paul on photography. This time the focus is troubleshooting.
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Shined/shone entry featured in the calendar this weekPrevious episodes discussing photography: 61, 62, 63, 79, 80Buy the book!0 min - Episode 88: Rag-picker’s Disease, Milk Leg, Scarlatina, and More Disease Names of Antiquity
This week we conclude our discussion of antiquated disease names.
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Photo of the Week: St. Catherine
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Downfall/drawback featured in the calendar this weekInspector Clouseau requests a roomBuy the book!0 min - Episode 87: King’s Evil, Grocer’s Itch, and (Blame It on the) Lumbago: More Disease Names of Antiquity
This week we continue to explore antiquated terms for diseases, not all of which are, unfortunately, antiquated themselves.
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Old English featured in the calendar this week“Adelaide’s Lament” from Guys and DollsBuy the book!0 min - Episode 86: Bronze John, Dandy Fever, Gleet, and More Disease Names
How about another round of antiquated disease names, not all of which are all that pleasant?
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Buy the book!0 min - Episode 85: Black Death, Blood Poisoning, and Other Antiquated Disease Names
Do you even want to listen? We talk about terms we used to use for various diseases, not all of which are entirely pleasant. You’ve been warned . . .
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Buy the book!0 min - Episode 84: When One Word Points Two Ways (Part 4)
We conclude our discussion on contranyms, words that can mean two very different things.
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About Amelia BediliaBuy the book!0 min - Episode 83: When One Word Points Two Ways (Part 3)
We continue our discussion on contranyms, words that can mean two very different things.
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Buy the book!0 min - Episode 82: When One Word Points Two Ways (Part 2)
We continue our discussion on contranyms, words that can mean two very different things.
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A sampling of L.M. Boyd’s “factoids”Buy the book!0 min - Episode 81: When One Word Points Two Ways (Part 1)
Words whose meanings can be contradictory—sometimes called contranyms, autoantonyms, antagonyms, or Janus words—are this week’s topic.
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Buy the book!0 min - Episode 80: Shooting People, Photographically
This week we talk more about photography, with the focus on photographing people.
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Download mp3On StitcherSome of Paul’s photographs of peopleA volunteer weed-puller working on a property protected by the Bainbridge Island Land Trust. She’s watching the ivy she’s pulled of a tree trunk falling.A boy and his dog waiting for the July 4th parade to begin.Girl searching for unusual species in a meadow during the 2016 Bainbridge Island Bio-Blitz.Team working on building a skyscraper at 2nd and Pike, SeattleLinks:
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