Podictionary Podcast
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podictionary is the audio word-a-day
for a couple of minutes Charles Hodgson
discusses the unexpected history
of words you thought you already knew
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victim ? podictionary 1065
Author: podictionaryemailAuthor: -daily@yahoo.ca
Mon, Nov 23, 2009
victims of ages past were restricted to having to have died to qualify as victims
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talent ? podictionary 1064
Author: podictionaryemail-daily@yahoo.ca
Fri, Nov 20, 2009
you’ve got to use the talents you’ve been given in this life
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orient ? podictionary 112
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Thu, Nov 19, 2009
The words orient, orienteering and disoriented don’t appear related oriental rug
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Nike ? podictionary 1062
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Wed, Nov 18, 2009
The shoe company Nike takes its name from a Greek goddess
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commute ? podictionary 111
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Tue, Nov 17, 2009
A special rail ticket was called a commutation ticket
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deed ? podictionary 1061
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Mon, Nov 16, 2009
the definition of deed is “that which is done.”
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trance ? podictionary 1060
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Fri, Nov 13, 2009
a trance was the state of being between life and death
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pant ? podictionary 109
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Thu, Nov 12, 2009
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
Author: podictionaryemail-daily@yahoo.ca
Wed, Nov 11, 2009
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
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Tue, Nov 10, 2009
baban evolved as a word from the sounds that babies make before they learn to talk
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abacus ? podictionary 1057
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Mon, Nov 09, 2009
the Latin word grew from a Greek word abak or abax that meant “slab”
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paint ? podictionary 1056
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Fri, Nov 06, 2009
the Indo-European root meant “to cut.”
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horsdoeuvre ? podictionary 107
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Thu, Nov 05, 2009
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
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Wed, Nov 04, 2009
when the Norman Conquerors arrived in England with their French a paun meant “a walker”
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magazine ? podictionary 106
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Tue, Nov 03, 2009
an Arabic word kazana meaning to “store up” whose sister word makazan, meaning “storehouse”
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pheasant ? podictionary 1053
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Mon, Nov 02, 2009
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
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Fri, Oct 30, 2009
from a French word meaning “let us drink”?
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bargain ? podictionary 105
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Thu, Oct 29, 2009
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
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Wed, Oct 28, 2009
It’s the flatness of the thing that gives it the name
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trapeze ? podictionary 1049
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Tue, Oct 27, 2009
"Trapeza" meaning "table" was once "tetra peza" meaning “four feet.”
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- Published:
2002
- LearnOutLoud.com Product ID:
P015799
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