You're Saying It Wrong

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You're Saying It Wrong episodes

May 16 A Lowdown Dirty Spelling Quiz (Part 2)
Kathy and Ross did their darndest to stump Fletcher in last week's spelling quiz, to moderate success. How will things go this week? The thrilling conclusion...
34 min
May 09 A Lowdown Dirty Spelling Quiz
Kathy and Ross pull out all the stops to try to trick Fletcher with a new spelling quiz. Fletcher does his best to upset them.
30 min
May 02 Cymraeg
Kathy, Ross, and Fletcher try to tackle the Welsh language, with... questionable results. Look, we're all doing our best here.
32 min
April 25 Phonotactics!
Think you don't know what phonotactics are? Even our youngest English speakers do! You might just not realize it...
31 min
April 18 What's in a Name?
This week, Kathy and Ross challenge Fletcher to an epic eponym quiz, and somehow they detour again into an analysis of pavement. How? You'll have to listen to find out!
34 min
April 11 [Encore] Where Are the Beeves?
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.
33 min
April 04 Euphemisms
We'll be happy to tell you what this episode is about just as soon as we get back from using the bathroom—I mean, the restroom—I mean, the washroom—I mean, the facilities—I mean…
31 min
March 28 If We Knew You Were Comin' We'd've Baked a Cake
Today we address a couple of listener questions, including one about the Third Conditional (???), before moving on to a quiz about Middle English vs. Latin spellings.
38 min
March 21 Register and Power
Today we have a wide-ranging discussion about the words we use, when we use them, and the enormous power they can have.
33 min
March 14 Broadening Our Horizons
Sometimes words get a whole lot less specific over time, and sometimes people get really mad about that!
32 min

About You're Saying It Wrong

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From KMUW Studios and part of the NPR Podcast Network, You're Saying It Wrong is a podcast that looks at what we get wrong—and what we sometimes get right—when it comes to this English language.…