Why ‘full’ stop. Do you also say ‘full empty’? …’full full’?

Some of us, in our younger days of the 1960s, first encountered the word _sanguine_ in the credits of our favourite TV detective show where it was combined into the magnificent name _Sanguine Saintly._ His descent into advertising, even allowing for appearing with Clement Freud, must have been _mortifying._

“Pantomime”: Performer pretending to wear trousers?or pretending to be a dog? If it’s actually “all gestures”, that’s disappointing.

Arachne was a mortal weaver who boasted that her work was better than the goddess, Athena's. Peeved, Athena turned Arachne into a spider, doomed to weave webs forever more. I. e., arachnids or spiders.

Not sure about Britian, but at least for the other countries, I think we should start using American english only to avoid confusion. Obviously British can continue using their version. But in 2025, this is a fact that US is much much superior that Britain on every front. Infact, many other countries are much powerful than Britain. So for the rest of us, we should just stop this confusion and chose the US english. Sure, Britian was all powerful in the first half of the 20th century and they did proliferate the english language, but following them in 2025, is absolutely nonsensical. We should just put a stop to all this confusion and just use American English 👍

Why are pupils in Flensburg taught both versions of English without being taught/shown which version a certain word belongs to? I want to speak one version of English and this as good as possible for a foreign language learner, not a mixture of different versions.

Love it!

Elements named after places: Element 98 Californium -- Cf

The reference to poking had me smiling

I'm surprised Rob didn't mention that in German, the word "Morgen" means both "morning" and "tomorrow."

As for duck, in a song in My Fair Lady, Eliza sings, "If they can do without you, Ducky, so can I."

I say, "that's bunk" and I am from the PNW. It means, to me, to say something is nonsense or otherwise, "debunked". I have no idea why I say this though. Neat all the same.

Love your videos, but your pronunciation of beer, in Chinese, does not mean beer. Chinese is an inflected language. The word is Píjiǔ.

Is the screever the word Dick Van Dyke uses in Mary Poppins when he's drawing on the pavement?

D flæsk = pork ( / meat ) D mad [mað] / S mat = food ~ meat D mel = flour ~ meal D føde = food / feed / give birth! D foder = fodder D middag [mid-day(gh)] = midday middag also means dinner / evening meal now, but it used to be the big warm meal around noon time.

Ta ta, cheerio and all that rot.

I could have sworn that I recently saw the root of sycophant meaning -- yes -- to "show" a "fig" -- but that the justification was that it was targeted at Greek fig smugglers, and the "sycophant" was the person who told the authorities on the smugglers.

let to allow, also to hinder

Come on. “hooch” comes from the chemical structure of alcohol.

leech and leak are similar, because an overful leech will leak (blood)

The medical doctors' oath includes the promiss to teach, and has done for about 2,000 years, apparently.

'con' is eqivalent to ken or cyn (cynning), while confidence is from confidere ?

Hey, Rob, the Normans did not arrive in Britain until about 1066, officially. There were plenty of castles in Britain in the 500's.

Yay, Connecticut! With that crazy ‘c’ in the middle!

Jess, if you knew how much I am enamored of your joyful personality and deep love and knowledge of words and their etymologies (which has inspired my creation of the word "lexenthusiasm," * * * formed solely with you in mind), you will not be the slightest bit offended at the suggestion that I think you should learn how to address the camera with your eyes rather than looking to the side a bit at the screen (?) or your notes (?) when you open the show, specifically, or in general when talking to us us or to Rob. Actually, I have no idea how Rob does it so well, and do not imagine I could do it easily, nor expect it should be easy for you, but it might be worth a try, since I believe that, if you choose to continue indefinitely with video podcasts, we all would want you to do so for a good long while! Footnote: Your use of the term "lady-crazies" took me so completely by surprise that I laughed out loud and am still chuckling about it now! 😂 * * * [Oooops! I looked up "lex-" to double-check myself and found it is more at "law" than "word," which is "logo-" so I am =mortified= [correct usage, I hope!] that my word formation failed! I didn't mean to say you have a zeal for law, but rather a deep enthusiasm for words! It's just that 'Logenthusiasm' seemed so awkward! How about Eadlogocious? After all, besides your <happy> relationship with language, you possess a great <wealth> of lexical knowledge... Or perhaps PhilologoZeal? Or maybe Lexicenthusiasm? I'm so bad at this! Well, at least you know I tried! 🧡]

The terms "vertical" and "horizontal" make much more sense in my industry (software development). There are technologies that can be used in various products. E.g. database, storage, web front end, etc. They are agnostic about the particular application. These are considered horizontals. Then there are services and products that we provide. E.g. the Facebook app and website on all platforms, which involves all sorts of technologies but is presented as a single atomic product unit. And that's a vertical. The division helps us define the roles and ownership.

Michigan native here for some explanations about our weird demonyms: "Yooper" comes from the initials for the Upper Peninsula being "UP." They could've gone with "Upper" but "Yooper" is just funnier, so that's what they stuck with. People from the Lower Peninsula are frequently called "trolls" due to living "under the bridge" but are also called "fudgies" due to being the ones who buy most of the fudge when they go up north. What makes this one a little confusing is that people from Mackinac Island are also called "fudgies" due to being the ones most associated with the famous Mackinaw Fudge. "Mackinac" and "Mackinaw" are pronounced the same by most Michiganders. The last c in "Mackinac" is silent, unless you're talking about Fort Michilimackinac, where you pronounce all of the letters. People from Wisconsin are mostly called "Wisconsinites." "Cheesehead" is primarily for Green Bay fans. And the most baffling demonym in the Midwest still has to be "Hoosier" for people from Indiana.

Jess: "I AM IRON MAN"... 's daughter. 👍

23:47 it's similar to the word in Persian Bird "parande" Maybe "brd" in "bird" and prd in "parande" have the same root. "Parande" comes from "parid or paridan" which means jumper and "paridan" means "to jump"

My very educated mother just showed us nine planets

So, performing a Hysterectomy is to remove the "Lady Crazies"?

I always understood ruthless to be derived from the care of the Biblical Ruth for her mother-in-law. If you were without compassion, you had no ruth. Rue is more regret than a lack of compassion.

I like custard. I hope it's not used as an insult.

"Is corporate jargon "a value add"? " No. It is an impediment to clear communication AND to clear thinking. It is ALL bad. There is nothing good about it.

I dropped a French class when the teacher asked us to translate a Silicon Valley quotation so completely saturated with jargon that I had no idea what it meant in English.

In South Dakota I once had a salad that was cool whip, Oreos, and fruit. It was definitely a salad and it was sat at the salad table. I guess they also have snickers salads which contain actual snickers candy bars.

So you’re not Jessa Farris?! 😂

FYI, the "ch" in Chinook is pronounced like "sh". I've been living in Oregon and Washington for 25 years. At least that's how everyone here pronounces it, including the native Americans from the Chinook tribe.

Rob, you may be too close to the camera for your own good. Good sport, eh, what?

In some card games you would "knock" before going out or finalize your hand.

In Scandinavia etc. the Big Dipper / the Plough is called D&N Karls-vognen / S Karls-vagnen, which is the samme at its name in older English the: Carles Wægn / Wain / Wagon. The word "karl" / "ceorl" / later "charle(s)" means "man".

Isn't flicking the two fingers depicted on the Bayeux tapestry or is that an urban myth?

So, a crapronym is an acronym falsely credited to a person?

This may be off-subject, but could you do one about the months of the year and the days of the week. There is some overlap, March and Mars are related, after the Roman mythological figure of war [presumably because in March the winds are at war, the colder north and east winds appear to be fighting in defence of winter against the milder west and south winds trying to usher in spring]. In English three of the days of the week are astronomical, one obviously so Sunday and two others the astronomical origin, become apparent when an extra letter is added Satur[n]day and Mo[o]nday. In French the other weekdays are astronomical Tuesday is mardi [Mars day], Wednesday is mercredi [Mercury day] Thursday is jovedi [Jupiter day] and Friday is venedi [Venus day], although interestingly Saturday and Sunday lose their astronomical connections in French in favour of religious ones, Saturday is samedi connected to the Old Testament Sabbath and Sunday is Dimanche or Day of the Lord, as it is the Christian day of worship.

So, does this mean slang is also a form of jargon?

I volunteered in a school to help kids with their reading. One 6yr old who wanted to tell me all about his fascination with the Yeti told me authoritatively that it was also called a Scratch Witch (Sasquatch) or ,my fave, The Responsible Snowman…I adore the idea of a particularly sensible snowman, perhaps with a clipboard checking the other snowmen are behaving 😂

The River Lethe is pronounced "lee-thee."

"Bumping uglies with sprites;" these are words I never thought I would hear together.

What about nee? A word that I rarely see any longer, and even back when I did, it seemed to be relegated to obituaries. It means formerly known as.

Re: bananas, the cluster is called a "hand" and each unit is called a "finger".