The Allusionist Episodes Available now
Singlish
About Singlish, and the complicated language situation in Singapore
Tranquillusionist: Ex-Constellations
Constellations that got demoted into ex-constellations
200th Episode Celebratory Quiz
A quiz about language where all the questions were set by beautiful brainy listeners
199 ideas I hadn't made into podcasts yet
199 ideas that I have not yet made into podcasts (except for this one)
Queer Arab Glossary
Designer and artist Marwan Kababour collects Arabic-language queer slang
Word Sport
At the Scripps National Spelling Bee it's a lot of work to make words into this word sport
Beeing
I went to the 2024 Scripps National Spelling Bee
100 Pages of Solvitude
Comedian John Finnemore spent six months solving a 100-page puzzle. Then he wrote his own.
Good Grids
Exciting things have been happening with crossword puzzles in the US
Lemon Demon
AJ Jacobs makes word puzzles, and sometimes turns his whole life into a puzzle.
