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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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27:27

Food! Glorious Food! (Part 1) | YSIW

You"re Saying It Wrong ·

2020/11/27

It's a cornucopia of delights! A feast for the... mouth? Ears? Whatever words are a feast for. We'll scarf down a Brazilian berry, a flaky French treat, and some delicious little potato pastas, while trying not to get yelled at by our Greek waiter. How exactly do you say all of these delicacies?

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34:22

When Bad Words... Turn Good! | YSIW

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2020/11/13

This time out we're going to get nice and cute and have a little fun with some words that were born on the wrong side of the tracks, but found the path to redemption.

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27:05

Origin Stories | YSIW

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2020/10/30

Horse jumping, goats fighting hedgehogs, rude fruit-related gestures... today we look at some of the most surprising and exciting word origins we can think of.

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30:17

Egregious Errors: The Master Class

You"re Saying It Wrong ·

2020/10/16

We're continuing on from the last episode's fun and games, but the difficulty is ramping up!

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34:32

Eight Egregious Errors | YSIW

You"re Saying It Wrong ·

2020/10/02

Well, actually Nine Egregious Errors, but Eight looks better, and one of them isn't really THAT bad. We'll look at some of the most common language mistakes, even in major publications, that might make your eyes pop out of your head. But... are they really a big deal?

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35:24

When Good Words Go Bad | YSIW

You"re Saying It Wrong ·

2020/09/18

Find out what happens when perfectly nice words fall in with the wrong crowd...

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29:02

The Ambiguity Of 'OK' | YSIW

You"re Saying It Wrong ·

2020/08/28

OK, the time has come to talk about OK, OK? OK!

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27:26

No, yeah! Yeah... no. | YSIW

You"re Saying It Wrong ·

2020/08/14

They're just two small, simple words. But when you put them together... all bets are off.

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22:11

Haplology: Why We Drop Sounds |YSIW

You"re Saying It Wrong ·

2020/07/31

"She was probly at interpetive dance class at the libry that Febuary fifteenth."No? No good? Try saying it out loud...

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31:18

50 Never Sounded Better | YSIW

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2020/07/17

It's our 50th podcast extravaganza! We'll talk about the current bête noire of the language world, "irregardless", as well as other redundancies and ways language may be changing for better or worse. Plus, a hodgepodge (or mishmash, or olio, or potpourri, take your pick) of listener pet peeves and whatever else might be on our minds. We can do what we want, we're 50 now.

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23:08

The Warmth Of The Athletic Hamster | YSIW

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2020/07/03

"The Warmth of the Athletic Hamster."

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27:10

Homonyms, Heterographys & Polysemes... Oh My | YSIW

You"re Saying It Wrong ·

2020/06/19

Grab some aspirin and try to wrap your head around the sloppy Venn diagram of homonyms, homophones, homographs, heteronyms, heterographs, polysemes... confused yet? So are we...

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32:29

Is Beauty In The Ear Of The Beholder? | YSIW

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2020/06/05

Why do some words sound pleasing while others feel ugly? Listen along as Kathy, Ross, and Fletcher try to work out: Is beauty in the ear of the beholder?

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26:19

Do Words Mean How They Sound? | YSIW

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2020/05/22

Do you have a smile that gleams and glistens and glows? Does the snot in your snout make you sneeze? Was that a slimy slug that just slithered by? Wait a minute—it seems like there's something going on here...

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25:33

Let's Have Fun With Latin (Said Nobody Ever) | YSIW

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2020/05/08

Two weeks ago, we had so much fun with French phrases, we figured, "why not do Latin?" Fletcher has some thoughts about why not to do Latin.

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29:48

French Phrases: Les Dites-Vous Mal? | YSIW

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2020/04/24

Is the entire French language Kathy's bête noire? Will Fletcher come up with le mot juste? Or will this whole thing just fill Ross with ennui? La partie commence!

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23:36

Brought To You By The Letter 'Q' | YSIW

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2020/04/10

This episode brought to you by the letter "Q." Well, "Qu." Because we don't know any English words that just start with "Q."

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38:43

Shibboleth Names You'd Better Get Right | YSIW

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2020/03/27

Artists, philosophers, movers and shakers—you'd better get these names right or you might be found out as a fraud.

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36:03

Words In The News | YSIW

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2020/03/13

This week we're looking at words we hear a lot, that may have some pretty hazy definitions, or may have ceased to have any meaning at all — including (appropriately) pandemic, socialist, and fascist. Also, well, Fletcher's not exactly himself this week.

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32:18

Crazy Spellings | YSIW

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2020/02/28

Prompted by a listener question, we look at words we have no business pronouncing correctly but that we do anyway. Choir, colonel, phlegm, island... where did these crazy spellings come from, anyway? Also, Ross enlightens us on the joys of, um, "borborygm."

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