Discover the fascinating world of "fossil words" with Rob and Jess on Words Unravelled! 🌍📚 In this episode, our hosts delve into the history and evolution of words that have stood the test of time but are no longer in common use. 

❓What is a "petard" and how can you be "hoist" by yours?

❓What does the shrift in "give short shrift" mean?

❓Who were the first people to "run amok"?

Learn about their origins, meanings, and the intriguing stories behind these linguistic relics.

🎥WATCH THIS EPISODE: https://youtu.be/HEk4hJZfo6Q

==LINKS==

Rob's YouTube channel: youtube.com/robwords

Jess' Useless Etymology blog: https://uselessetymology.com/

Rob on X: x.com/robwordsyt

Jess on TikTok: tiktok.com/@jesszafarris

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In this edition of Words Unravelled, Rob and Jess resurrect some long lost words. We promise not to leave you gremed, overmirthed, nor cursed with the mulligrubs as we explore a hubble-shubble of archaic and obsolete vocabulary from centuries past.

🎥 WATCH EPISODE: https://youtu.be/_tW9pfCqIgY

==LINKS==

Rob's YouTube channel: youtube.com/robwords

Jess' Useless Etymology blog: https://uselessetymology.com/

Rob on X: x.com/robwordsyt

Jess on TikTok: tiktok.com/@jesszafarris

This episode of Words Unravelled is out of this world! Blast off with Rob and Jess as they explore the cosmic origins of space terms. 🌌 Where did the planets get their names? And how do you actually pronounce Uranus? What’s the difference between a meteor, a comet and an asteroid? And what’s so milky about the Milky Way? 🌠 From constellations that twinkle with mythology to the everyday words than fell to us from space, let’s dive deep into the linguistic black hole! 🚀

WATCH THIS EPISODE: https://youtu.be/NO7mNlZhEiM

Chase the blues away and be tickled pink by another episode of Words Unravelled. In this edition Rob and Jess explore the origins of a whole spectrum of color words (or as Rob calls them, "colour words").

🌸Does pink really exist?

💙Did the Greeks have no word for blue?

⚫️Can black actually mean white?

🐘Which spelling of grey/gray is correct?

These questions answered and many more in Words Unravelled 🌈

Watch this episode here: https://youtu.be/DKCsWcnzWVU

For centuries, British English and American English have been locked in a battle for supremacy. In this edition of Words Unravelled, Rob and Jess expose the linguistic differences either side of 'the pond' and try to understand why they exist.

Watch this episode here: https://youtu.be/o6KlBd7TPFI

Hello and welcome (or should that be hellcome?) to another Words Unravelled. In this episode, Rob and Jess discuss word mash-ups.

- 🍊Was an orange ever a norange?

- 🍔 Why do cheeseburgers make no sense?

- ❓Is it okay to "aks" instead of "ask"?

These questions answered and many more as we explore portmanteaus, rebracketing and metathesis.

WATCH this episode here: https://youtu.be/L3Qepv4F5Yc

Welcome, me hearties, to another episode of Words Unravelled. In this edition, Rob and Jess discuss nautical terms and pirate slang.

💩 What's so poopy about a poop deck?

🏴‍☠️ What does it mean to "shiver" someone's timbers?

⚓️ Which English idioms come from the high seas?

Find out in Words Unravelled!

Watch this episode here: https://youtu.be/QPcOx29fVPA

Join word nerds Jess and Rob as they uncover English's lost positives and orphaned negatives. Why can you be "nonchalant" but not "chalant"? If something perfect is "immaculate", what does it mean to be "maculate"? And if you're no longer "exasperated" are you therefore "asperated"? Find out in this edition of Words Unravelled.

Watch this episode here: https://youtu.be/6EnIqXnW5Kw

Join Jess and Rob to collectively explore the weird world of collective nouns.

Watch this episode here: https://youtu.be/K2MaE9tn1rk

Read the Book of St Albans here: https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Boke_of_Saint_Albans/855KAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP130&printsec=frontcover&dq=sleuth

Jess Zafarris and Rob Watts (aka RobWords) bust some etymology myths:

💰 Does "tip" mean To Insure Promptness?

🤬 Is the F word an acronym?

🦋 Was a butterfly ever a "flutterby"?

Find out in Words Unravelled.

WATCH THIS EPISODE: https://youtu.be/FcP3Orn_rjs