🇧🇪 België
Apple Turnover (episode #1686)
Critters, co-workers, and clothes: What do you call your favorite mixed-breed dog? There are Heinz 57 mutts and Texas brown dogs in the U.S., wh…
Nieuwsbron
A Way with Words, a fun radio show and podcast about language
waywordradio.org
🇺🇸 Verenigde Staten
Fair Dinkum (episode #1612)
A magnificent new book celebrates the richness and diversity of 450 years of written and spoken English in what is now the United States. It’s c…
🇳🇱 Nederland
You Talk Like a Sausage (episode #1592)
Do you refer to your dog or cat as “somebody”? As in: When you love somebody that much, you don’t mind if they slobber. In other words, is your…
🇳🇱 Nederland
Klimaat & energie
Diamond Dust (episode #1585)
Diamond dust, tapioca snow, and sugar icebergs — a 1955 glossary of arctic and subarctic terms describes the environment in ways that sound poet…
🇫🇷 Frankrijk
Maatschappij
Bohemian, a Word Fittingly Traced through Literature, Theater, and Intertwined Cultures
How did the term Bohemian come to be associated with literary and artistic nonconformists who live outside mainstream society? In the early 19th…
🇮🇪 Ierland
Wetenschap
Space Frogs (episode #1647)
Scientists have named some recently discovered species of tree frogs after characters from Star Trek. Why? Because of the boops and trills and o…