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Getting Down & Wordy

Russell Pirkle & Hannah Weyer

Humorous Etymological Research Probing English Songs - A moderately researched, moderately funny chat show about popular music and language. We are a Podmoth Network podcast.

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01:32:12

10. The Pursuit of "Happier Than Ever" by Billie Eilish

Getting Down & Wordy ·

2021/10/17

The etymology of happiness including Jesus orgasms and hedonism. The Bulgarian language's inferrential verb tense.

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01:44:20

9. Feeling "Way 2 Sexy" by Drake Future and Young Thug

Getting Down & Wordy ·

2021/10/09

We have fun with numbers, talking about to too and two, number puns in Chinese and Spanish, and British Bingo. Also Mata Hari by Efendi and the Azerbaijani language.

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01:15:53

8. What's "good 4 u" by Olivia Rodrigo

Getting Down & Wordy ·

2021/09/29

Today’s song is SoOoO oRiGiNaL. We discuss sarcasm, good 4 u by Olivia Rodrigo, the return of rock pop punk whatever same as the old rock pop punk whatever, positive and negative face, the big five of Eurovision, and Anglo-Saxon and French pairs of English words.

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01:16:14

7. Minding the "WAP" by Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion

Getting Down & Wordy ·

2021/09/22

Two asexuals talk about WAP. We see wtf is up with acronyms, initialisms, backronyms, macronyms, orphaned acronyms, the USA PATRIOT act and jump on the making fun of Ben Shapiro bandwagon, with a true song of ribaldry and then say some stuff about Maneskin and pasta words.

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01:33:46

6. Quibbling that "I am not a Woman I'm a God" by Halsey

Getting Down & Wordy ·

2021/09/15

We talk about gender in language, epicenes, and argots plus "Loco Loco" by Hurricane.

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01:25:24

5. Da "Levitating" by Dua Lipa and Dababy

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2021/09/02

We talk about astronomy words, speech tempo, anime boyfriends, and useful Norwegian words with "Fallen Angel" by Tix.

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01:20:08

4. Getting "Dad Vibes" by Limp Bizkit

Getting Down & Wordy ·

2021/08/24

We talk about the comeback story of 'vibe', reduplication and 'la di da', the importance of Lithuanian and The Roop.

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01:26:59

3. Spreading "Butter" by BTS

Getting Down & Wordy ·

2021/08/16

We speculate about Korean's influence on English, the evolution of the concept of "summer", and English's Germanic roots with "I Don't Feel Hate" by Jendrik.

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01:02:51

2. Rooting for "Industry Baby" by Lil Nas X and Jack...

Getting Down & Wordy ·

2021/08/10

We talk about the root of "root", accents, linguistic accomodation, "Je Me Casse", and "Industry Baby" on this our second-ish episode of Pop Etymology.

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01:07:52

1. Unrequiting "Love Like Woe" by The Ready Set

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2021/08/05

Today in our second first episode, we discuss words of the 2010s, eggcorns and solecisms, Dadi Freyr, and "Love Like Woe" by The Ready Set.

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