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You"re Saying It Wrong

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. Hosted by KMUW"s Fletcher Powell, each episode features a conversation with the sister and brother who wrote the book on it. Literally. You"re Saying It Wrong: A Pronunciation Guide to the 150 Most Commonly Mispronounced Words and Their Tangled Histories of Misuse is by Kathryn Petras and Ross Petras.On June

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34:46

The (Most Mispronounced) Words of the Year! | YSIW

You"re Saying It Wrong ·

2021/12/24

We wrap up 2021 with a look at the most mispronounced words of the year-- we don't even know what some of these things are, let alone how to say them!

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36:16

A Grab Bag of Confusion | YSIW

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2021/12/10

Prompted by some listener emails, we're returning to our bread and butter: words we accidentally use when we mean to use other words. It's confusable time!

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37:17

Medial Cluster Reduction! | YSIW

You"re Saying It Wrong ·

2021/11/26

Medial cluster what now?? Come on, you know you want to hear this. It's something you're doing basically all the time...

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40:43

Weird Origins of Everyday Phrases | YSIW

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2021/11/12

We won't turn a blind eye if you get caught red-handed trying to steal our thunder, because today we're digging into the sometimes surprising, usually murky origins of phrases we use every day (and we want all the credit, darn it!).

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32:36

Apostrophes? Who Needs 'Em?! | YSIW

You"re Saying It Wrong ·

2021/10/29

After our discussion of plurals in the last episode, we got to thinking about all the trouble apostrophes cause us, and Ross proposes a rather extreme solution.

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42:20

Fun with plurals! | YSIW

You"re Saying It Wrong ·

2021/10/15

All sorts of fun with plurals today: what we get wrong when we try to use Latin plurals, the rules of English plurals, pluralizing compound words... Look out, our opinions on plurals are like a charging herd of rhinocerotes!

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36:58

You're (Still) Spelling It Wrong

You"re Saying It Wrong ·

2021/10/01

We continue with our look at the most commonly misspelled words in the English language, as we dig into why it is we tend to spell them incorrectly, and the rules about why we spell them the way we do. And since this is English, we know rules are made to be broken!

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31:20

You're Spelling It Wrong | YSIW

You"re Saying It Wrong ·

2021/09/17

Kathy and Ross challenge Fletcher to a spelling bee, as they tackle some of the English language's most commonly misspelled words and Fletcher immediately regrets bragging about how good he is at spelling.

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36:10

Pretentious Confusables | YSIW

You"re Saying It Wrong ·

2021/09/03

Kathy, Ross & Fletcher dip back into their bag of commonly confused words with some particularly pretentious examples.

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24:41

It's Time To Execute The Contronym Discussion | YSIW

You"re Saying It Wrong ·

2021/08/20

We continue with our discussion of contronyms by jumping into some seemingly simple words that turn out to have some complicated meanings. And the summer heat has made us a little loopy, which means we devolve into just a bit of toilet humor (PG-rated, of course), so... be warned!

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40:33

Sanction? Oversight? Let's Have Fun With Some...

You"re Saying It Wrong ·

2021/08/06

Do you trim the tree before you trim the tree? Do you have to dust after you dust a cake? Today we're looking at contronyms (or antagonyms, or enantiosemy, or Janus words, or...), those cases where a single word can have two completely opposite meanings.

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30:11

Flapdoodle Words (Part 2: The Sequel) | YSIW

You"re Saying It Wrong ·

2021/07/23

Kathy, Ross & Fletcher explore a few more redundant words and phrases!

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34:07

Flapdoodle Words

You"re Saying It Wrong ·

2021/07/09

This week, Kathy and Ross bring us a list of what they call "flapdoodle words," words that are redundant and just kind of junk things up. Or do they? Some of them might be kind of useful!

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1:12

Some Good News! (And a Little Warning.)

You"re Saying It Wrong ·

2021/07/07

No more limits! All You're Saying It Wrong episodes will be available in one fell swoop!

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27:02

We're Flat Fine With These Adverbs | YSIW

You"re Saying It Wrong ·

2021/06/25

Today, Kathy and Ross teach Fletcher about "flat adverbs," which look just like their adjective counterparts, but are still... adverbs. Think fast! Drive safe! Who needs that pesky -ly ending? Not these words.

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32:17

It's The Wild West Out Here! | YSIW

You"re Saying It Wrong ·

2021/06/11

Today we take a big step back and answer a common listener question about exactly why we don't talk that much about "The Rules" of English. Spoiler: THERE AREN'T ANY! (Ok, we're kidding, there are some.)

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31:13

Mailbag Day! Or, We Lay Waste (to) The English...

You"re Saying It Wrong ·

2021/05/28

We dip into some listener questions, including one about our recent "reflexive pronouns" discussion and one that has us revisit a topic from an earlier episode and that whole lie/lay/laid/lain confusion. Spoiler: Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton are both wrong!

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33:56

A Return To Blipover Words | YSIW

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2021/05/14

We're returning to one of our favorite topics: words we sometimes use without really knowing what they mean, or words we see that we just kind of skim past because we aren't totally sure what they mean — "Blipover words," as Ross calls them. You know, words you see and just sort of "blip" over. And boy oh boy, some of these even we have a hard time getting a handle on. Plus: guest appearances by Bob Dylan, Alanis Morissette and Yoda.

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30:50

Taking Selfies | YSIW

You"re Saying It Wrong ·

2021/04/30

Cue up De La Soul, today we're talking "Me, Myself, and I!" Fletcher tries to wrap his head around reflexive pronouns and gets a remedial grammar lesson, and we all try not to have an identity crisis. Who am I, anyway?

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30:24

We Are Loath (Loathe?) To Confuse These Words | YSIW

You"re Saying It Wrong ·

2021/04/16

After Fletcher vents his rage about a word he's starting to hear being misused more and more often, and then Kathy and Ross answer a listener question about the phrase "out of sorts" (what the heck are sorts?), we jump back into our trip through the commonly confused alphabet with the letters L and M. Things get pretty dark.

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