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Podcast Host: Charles Hodgson
Podcast Owner: podictionary
Website: http://podictionary.libsyn.com
Location: Ottawa Canada
An almost daily podcast for logophiles (lovers of words), podictionary covers a new word for a minute or two in each episode, discussing etymology (word history) and related trivia.
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8/23/2010 | Download File (2.52 MB) - right click to download
A rerun podcast from 2006 This word highlights the dangers of electronic media. I looked up bamboozled in the Oxford English Dictionary online, that's where the draft third edition can be found. There is a verb to bamboozle and a noun bamboozle so I clicked on the etymology for the first one listed online, the [...]
8/18/2010 | Download File (3.15 MB) - right click to download
From 2006 Some listeners have been asking for words that arose from languages other than Latin. I chose hyena out of the blue, thinking, that's likely to be African isn't it? Which just goes to show how hard it is to get away from Latin and Greek roots since hyena too arrived in English after [...]
8/17/2010 | Download File (2.98 MB) - right click to download
A repeat episode from May 2006 I got the idea for this word of the day from reading more about the Oxford English Corpus, that dictionary maker's tool said to have a billion words in its database. One of the things that lexicographers have been able to do, that they weren't able to do before, [...]
8/10/2010 | Download File (3.55 MB) - right click to download
From June 2006 The podictionary word for today is mall: I'm not a mall person, but of course every now and then I need to go to the mall to buy something. Would you have suspected that the word we use to describe this collection of stores originates in a word for "hammer?" The word [...]
8/9/2010 | Download File (2.37 MB) - right click to download
An old episode from May 2006 The other day I mentioned that Richard Lederer had brought up a word with an interesting background and "umpire" is the word. An umpire is of course the official who enforces the rules in baseball and a number of other sports. In some sports the official isn't called an [...]
