podictionary - the podcast for word lovers

podictionary - the podcast for word lovers


brittle – podictionary 218

June 02, 2010

This episode re-run from 2006

Anatoly Liberman has a blog going called "the Oxford Etymologist"nbsp; I was reading one of his pieces that talked about the antiquity of some words and how the older they get, the more silly it becomes to try to pin a speci