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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paint – podictionary 1056
Author: podictionaryemail-daily@yahoo.ca
Fri, Nov 06, 2009
the Indo-European root meant “to cut.”
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horsdoeuvre – podictionary 107
Author: podictionaryemail-daily@yahoo.ca
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
Author: podictionaryemail-daily@yahoo.ca
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
Author: podictionaryemail-daily@yahoo.ca
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
Author: podictionaryemail-daily@yahoo.ca
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
Author: podictionaryemail-daily@yahoo.ca
Wed, Oct 28, 2009
It’s the flatness of the thing that gives it the name
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trapeze – podictionary 1049
Author: podictionaryemail-daily@yahoo.ca
Tue, Oct 27, 2009
"Trapeza" meaning "table" was once "tetra peza" meaning “four feet.”
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yacht and special behind the scenes – podictionary 1048
Author: podictionaryemail-daily@yahoo.ca
Mon, Oct 26, 2009
if you like what you’re reading I would hope you’d like to listen to it even more
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leotard – podictionary 1047
Author: podictionaryemail-daily@yahoo.ca
Fri, Oct 23, 2009
Jules Leotard was a French circus performer
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curfew – podictionary 103
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Thu, Oct 22, 2009
Couvre is easily recognizable as “cover” and feu is the French word for “fire.”
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aluminum – podictionary 1045
Author: podictionaryemail-daily@yahoo.ca
Wed, Oct 21, 2009
the guy who came up with the stuff called it alumium at first
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tragus – podictionary 1044
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Tue, Oct 20, 2009
Tragus in Greek meant “billy-goat”
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carpenter – podictionary 1043
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Mon, Oct 19, 2009
Latin root of "carpenter" a craftsman who made chariots, "carpentum" was a two wheeled vehicle
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surname – podictionary 1042
Author: podictionaryemail-daily@yahoo.ca
Fri, Oct 16, 2009
In the early 1200s surnames hadn’t caught on widely, by the end of the 1400s almost everybody had ‘em.
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SPECIAL podictionary episode 1041- interview with Philip Durkin
Author: podictionaryemail-daily@yahoo.ca
Thu, Oct 15, 2009
interview with Philip Durkin, the Principal Etymologist for The Oxford English Dictionary
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blanket – podictionary 1040
Author: podictionaryemail-daily@yahoo.ca
Wed, Oct 14, 2009
French word for “white” is "blanc" and a blanket is so called because it was made from white fluff
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class – podictionary 1039
Author: podictionaryemail-daily@yahoo.ca
Tue, Oct 13, 2009
The Latin "classis" came from the same root as their word used to mean a soldier was being “called up”
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ordeal – podictionary 102
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Mon, Oct 12, 2009
"ordeal" was part of Old English as "ordal" and "ordel"
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2002
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P015799
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