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podictionary Podcasts

PodcastDirectory / Variety / Variety
PodcastDirectory / Regions / NA / 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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Canada
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talent – podictionary 1064

you’ve got to use the talents you’ve been given in this life

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orient – podictionary 112

The words orient, orienteering and disoriented don’t appear related oriental rug

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Nike – podictionary 1062

The shoe company Nike takes its name from a Greek goddess

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commute – podictionary 111

A special rail ticket was called a commutation ticket

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deed – podictionary 1061

the definition of deed is “that which is done.”

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trance – podictionary 1060

a trance was the state of being between life and death

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pant – podictionary 109

reason our ancient forbearers were panting, is because they woke up in the night from a fantastic nightmare

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nova – podictionary 1058

at the time it was such a shocking idea to think that there might even be a new star in the sky that it got all the scientists talking

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baby – podictionary 108

baban evolved as a word from the sounds that babies make before they learn to talk

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abacus – podictionary 1057

the Latin word grew from a Greek word abak or abax that meant “slab”

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paint – podictionary 1056

the Indo-European root meant “to cut.”

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horsdoeuvre – podictionary 107

in 1596, hors d’oeuvre was an architectural term and indicated a piece of masonry that jutted out from the rest building

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pawn – podictionary 1054

when the Norman Conquerors arrived in England with their French a paun meant “a walker”

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magazine – podictionary 106

an Arabic word kazana meaning to “store up” whose sister word makazan, meaning “storehouse”

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pheasant – podictionary 1053

the Greeks called this bird phasianos thinking they came from near the River Phasis which flows into the black sea.

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lampoon – podictionary 1052

from a French word meaning “let us drink”?

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bargain – podictionary 105

One unconvincing theory is that the back and forth nature of bargaining is related to the fact that a boat carries goods to and fro.

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placenta – podictionary 1050

It’s the flatness of the thing that gives it the nam

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trapeze – podictionary 1049

"Trapeza" meaning "table" was once "tetra peza" meaning “four feet.”

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yacht and special behind the scenes – podictionary 1048

if you like what you’re reading I would hope you’d like to listen to it even more

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