1985 may not seem like a long time ago, but people back then had some pretty different ideas about how to speak "properly."

What does the stock market have to do with piracy in the West Indies? The Dutch, of course! (Really!)

The plural of thief is thieves, so why isn't the plural of chief chieves? And as the old woman once said, where are the beeves??? On today's show, we tackle the tricky nuance of plurals and synonyms that aren't actually synonyms.

We return to our series looking at the most enigmatic, evil words ever found on the SAT.

We're talking about some words of the season as the temperatures have fortunately turned for the better and allergies unfortunately have not.

Today we're taking a trip back into the past — past tense, past participles... When we try to tell someone about something that already happened, it can be trickier than we might think.

We celebrate our 200th episode (!) by taking a trip back in time to look at some words that popped up 200 years ago.

Put on your best evening wear, we're getting fancy! Or maybe we're just getting stuffy. This week we're looking at language that's grammatically correct, but that sounds like you're just trying to impress.

We answer listeners' most burning language questions, including one about how the letter "R" seems to disappear and reappear in the strangest places, and about whether or not anything can ever be called "epic" ever again.

Latin may be a dead language, but it sure seems to come up a lot! This week, we'll look at some common Latin phrases that we think we understand, but that we may not get quite right.