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PODCAST

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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29:23

Cranberry Morphemes

You"re Saying It Wrong ·

2024/06/29

We know what a berry is, we know what a cranberry is, but what the heck is a "cran?" We enter the sometimes murky world of the cranberry morpheme...

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29:23

Final Exams

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2024/06/22

As we head into summer, we'll take a look back to see if we can remember what we've learned over the past year.

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29:23

The Defining Words of the Spelling Bee

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2024/06/15

After this year's thrilling spell-off in the National Spelling Bee, we try to tease out the definitions of some of the words that won the contest.

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29:21

The Oldest of Old Words

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2024/06/08

This week, we're talking about some of the very oldest words in the English language, and how little some of them have changed over thousands of years.

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29:23

Smooshed-up Words

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2024/06/01

We're looking at words that were made by smooshing together other words, but it all happened so long ago that we completely forgot about it.

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29:16

The Rheturn of Rhetoric

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2024/05/25

We're dipping back into common rhetorical devices today, and talking about how they can be used to win people to your side... or at least make them laugh a little bit.

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29:15

Ye Olde Fossil Words

You"re Saying It Wrong ·

2024/05/18

We look at some very old words that used to mean something, but that we now only see in very specific instances.

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29:14

If I Were To Talk About The Subjunctive...

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2024/05/11

Some of us (Fletcher) can never keep straight what, exactly, the subjunctive is, so fortunately Kathy and Ross are here to remind us!

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29:14

We are all rhetoricians now

You"re Saying It Wrong ·

2024/05/04

We have fun with rhetoric and some commonly used rhetorical devices, including how we might be using them even when we don't realize it.

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29:22

These Names Have Snob Appeal

You"re Saying It Wrong ·

2024/04/27

We look at some names of famous people that, when you pronounce them correctly, can let people know you're an expert... or a snob.

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29:23

Shakespeare: He made up a lot of words

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2024/04/20

This week, Kathy and Ross quiz Fletcher on a list of words that may or may not have been coined by Shakespeare. You might be surprised by which ones we still use today.

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29:22

British-isms

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2024/04/13

We look at why Americans love to talk like our friends from across the pond— or like to think that's what we're doing.

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29:22

The Good Kind of Stress

You"re Saying It Wrong ·

2024/04/06

Today we're looking at sentence stress and how the meaning of a sentence can completely change depending on which words you emphasize.

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1:36

A message from You're Saying It Wrong

You"re Saying It Wrong ·

2024/03/30

Ouch! Unfortunately, we won't have an episode this week, because even more unfortunately, one of us had an accident and sustained a not-insignificant personal injury. Everything's basically ok, but, you know, it hurts, so we need a week off. Sorry about that, and we'll see you next week!

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29:24

Return of the Confusables

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2024/03/23

We get back to one of our favorite topics: Words that sound a lot like other words but have totally different meanings.

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29:22

Weird Word Origins

You"re Saying It Wrong ·

2024/03/16

We look at some words that we think are related to other words, but actually aren't. Except sometimes they are.

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29:24

Pretending to be proper

You"re Saying It Wrong ·

2024/03/09

We look at some "rules" of the language that were mostly just made up so people could feel like they were speaking proper English.

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29:23

Sticky, tricky grammar moments

You"re Saying It Wrong ·

2024/03/02

We run through some particularly confusing grammar mistakes and how sometimes we might think we’re saying one thing when we’re really saying another.

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29:20

Psilence!

You"re Saying It Wrong ·

2024/02/24

We run through a few of the many, many English words that contain silent letters and some of the baffling reasons we pronounce those words the way we do.

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29:21

The Latin Craze

You"re Saying It Wrong ·

2024/02/17

We dig into why certain words are spelled ridiculously thanks to a bunch of scholars a few hundred years ago who got a little too nutso about making everything look Latin.

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