The Allusionist Episodes Available now
Gems and Patties
Two food-related renamings: one that mostly happened, another that mostly did not
Misophonia
Misophonia is a condition that 20% of you have: an extreme reaction to certain sounds.
Timucua
Decoding and translating 400-year-old texts to understand the lost Timucua language
Siblings of Chaos
Dictionary Corner resident Susie Dent has been studying words to make us feel happy.
Cairns
Behind every Great Man of Lexicography was usually a team of women making his dictionary.
Project ENABLE
Sterling Martin was studying worms, when suddenly he found himself making a dictionary.
In Character
Chinese is one of the oldest still-spoken languages in the world.
Verisimilitude
A lot - a LOT! - of work goes into inventing languages for fictional worlds.
Blood is not Water
The Yiddish word for 鈥榖lack鈥� is a slur. How to translate Black Lives Matter without it?
Two or More
In its fairly short existence, the word 'bisexual' has had a pretty bumpy ride.
