Two weeks' notice or two week's notice? Where does the apostrophe go?

How AI differs from other computer programs, with Sean Goedecke

Why AI uses the same names for people, with Sean Goedecke

How to highlight words used as words

Can you make a living by writing a book? with Jane Friedman

What does SOS stand for, with Jess Zafarris

How to pronounce potable

Why you say you're cooking 'from scratch'

Are the Pennsylvania Dutch really Dutch?

Can AI do the job of etymologists?

Making the Online Etymology Dictionary, with Doug Harper

How Samuel Johnson rebuked a noble who tried to take credit for helping him

What's in the Samual Johnson collection at Harvard, with John Overholt

Why Samuel Johnson hated Americans, with John Overholt

Was it rage bait to make 6-7 the word of the year?

How AI slop gives us, slopaganda, slopographers, sloportunists, and sloptimism

Alliteration just feels good, with Doug Fraser

Why Mark Twain didn't like long words — it had to do with money

The word that made it into the dictionary in just 34 days, with Stefan Fatsis

How the linotype got its name. 🤣

The concept of a teenager comes from the way we make the "teen" word in English

How Martha Barnette's mentor made her see language in a whole new way. #podcast

Do people have different personalities when they speak different languages? #podcast #linguistics

What is received pronunciation in British English?

How print dictionaries are better than online dictionaries, with Peter Sokolowski

What the new print Merriam-Webster dictionary actually LOOKS like, with Peter Sokolowski

Insider info on crossword puzzles, with Natan Last #podcast

The crossword memorabilia hiding in Will Shortz's basement, with Natan Last

Why 'Science' writers did a study of AI writing, with Abigail Eisenstadt

A man discovered his ancestor was the first 'scalawag,' with Ben Zimmer

The word 'jazz' comes from ... baseball, with Ben Zimmer

How new freelancer writers can start prospecting, with Suzanne Bowness

How to think of pitching so it doesn't feel icky, with Suzanne Bowness

How printers gave us the idea of uppercase and lowercase letters, with Danny Bate

How we got individual letters from hieroglyphics, with Danny Bate

Why one floor at Merriam-Webster doesn't have sprinklers, with Stefan Fatsis

Why didn't Merriam-Webster buy the Dictionary.com domain name? with Stefan Fatsis

Did you know the name Pakistan is an acronym? #etymology

Outrage isn't out + rage! with Jess Zafarris #podcast #etymology

Did you know the fedora is named after character in a French play?

The page-turn rule in comic book writing

Breaking the rules in comics

What are the 'rules' of writing comics?

Why we like words written with letters from the right side of the keyboard (🤯), with Adam Aleksic

How people write SHOUTING in languages without capital letters, with Adam Aleksic

Why books are rectangles, with Keith Houston

Why do we talk about the "weight" of knowledge? (with Keith Houston)

Amazonian metaphors for time, with Lauren Gawne