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An almost daily podcast for logophiles (lovers of words), podictionary covers a new word for a minute or two in each episode, discussing etymology (word history) and related trivia.

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nomad – podictionary 993

The word "nomad" is related to the portioning out of pasture lands....

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[ Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:01:27 +0000 ]

yarn – podictionary 992

the ancient word for a kind of cord made from the insides of animals grew into our word yarn...

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[ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:01:58 +0000 ]

channel – podictionary 991

Channel first turns up in English back around the year 1300...

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[ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:01:15 +0000 ]

gasoline – podictionary 78

after the Greek concept of chaos, except transcribed to the word gas instead of chaos...

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[ Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:01:00 +0000 ]

tennis – podictionary 990

the word tennis comes from the French word tenir meaning “to hold” or “to take.” ...

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[ Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:23:29 +0000 ]

town – podictionary 989

town meant “an enclosed space” and was more likely to apply to a farm...

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[ Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:01:55 +0000 ]

jungle – podictionary 75

in Hindi and even more earlier in Sanskrit "jungle" didn’t denote a rainforest but a dry desert...

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[ Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:01:00 +0000 ]

thrill – podictionary 988

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[ Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:01:56 +0000 ]

curry – podictionary 71

an earlier existence of the word curry meant to “brush” or “rub down,”...

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[ Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:01:00 +0000 ]

snake – podictionary 987

the words "snake" and "serpent" slither back to a root meaning of something that creeps and crawls...

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[ Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:01:36 +0000 ]

public – podictionary 986

it turns out that the typo "pubic" has roots deep in the etymology of the word "public"...

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[ Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:01:34 +0000 ]

poach – podictionary 985

the reason the cooking method is called poaching is the yolk appears to be in a little bag...

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[ Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:01:12 +0000 ]

grotesque – podictionary 69

grotesque is “from a grotto” just as picturesque is “from a picture” ...

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[ Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:01:00 +0000 ]

park – podictionary 984

the parent word was parricus—a Latin word meaning “fence”...

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[ Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:01:24 +0000 ]

adamant – podictionary 983

Medieval scholars read this word adamant in those older documents and tried to figure out what exactly the authors were trying to get at....

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[ Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:01:53 +0000 ]

antique - podictionary 68

Antique is from the Latin antiquus, meaning “former” or “ancient” ...

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[ Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:01:00 +0000 ]

pixel - podictionary 982

a pixel (or pix-el) is literally and figuratively a "picture element." ...

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[ Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:01:43 +0000 ]

shoe - podictionary 64

etymologists aren’t sure if "shoe" goes back to a word related to walking or a different word meaning “to cover”...

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[ Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:01:00 +0000 ]

doodle - podictionary 981

the doodle you do with a pencil could possibly be named because it's seen as foolish...

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[ Mon, 08 Jun 2009 04:01:11 +0000 ]

snoop - podictionary 980

from Dutch and German. In a number of Germanic languages snoepen means to "buy candy"...

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[ Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:04:21 +0000 ]

pal - podictionary 979

"pal" in Romani had been "phral" thought to be related to a Sanskrit word meaning “brother.” ...

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[ Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:01:26 +0000 ]

giggle - podictionary 73

an onomatopoeia; the word "giggle" imitates the sound of a giggle...

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[ Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:01:00 +0000 ]

mea culpa - podictionary 978

Latin for “through my own fault” ...

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[ Mon, 01 Jun 2009 04:01:39 +0000 ]

holocaust - podictionary 977

holocaust literally means “wholly burned”...

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[ Fri, 29 May 2009 04:01:53 +0000 ]

Dutchdouble - podictionary 976

double Dutch was applied to a language you didn’t understand...

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[ Thu, 28 May 2009 04:01:45 +0000 ]

fire - podictionary 975

Indo-European had two different words for things like fire. ...

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[ Wed, 27 May 2009 04:01:17 +0000 ]

dine - podictionary 66

"dine" is thought to come from a Latin root "disjejunare"...

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[ Tue, 26 May 2009 04:01:00 +0000 ]

hyphen - podictionary 974

The Greek meaning of the word hyphen is “in one”...

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[ Mon, 25 May 2009 04:01:36 +0000 ]

typhoon - podictionary 973

one of those rare words that blew in from two places with similar enough meanings that one word came to apply in both cases...

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[ Fri, 22 May 2009 04:02:13 +0000 ]

cow - podictionary 972

the plural of "cow" used to be "kine."...

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[ Wed, 20 May 2009 04:01:18 +0000 ]

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