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Perhaps itrsquo;s etymologically appropriate that one of the first movies produced by National Lampoon, Animal House involved a lot of drinking. SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. I canrsquo

Bargain isnbsp; a word that demonstrates how etymologies can get lost in the fog of history; and how I can happily bumble around in the same fog and find some fun things. SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FRE

Why would people use a word meaning ldquo;cakerdquo; for this bloody thing? SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. Every one of us has had a very intimate connection with a placenta at one point

Though swinging around in the top of circus tents might not be your idea of stability, stability is why a trapeze is called a trapeze. SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. In an earlier episod

SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. Special This is a special edition of podictionary in which Irsquo;m going to give you a little glimpse behind the scenes and explain a few changes that ar

People sometimes exercise or do yoga in leotards. SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. The garment is variously described as having long or short sleeves or legs or none at all, but in all cas

When parents impose a curfew on their teenagers it means they want them home by a certain time. SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. If the government imposes a curfew it means that authoritie

If you are American yoursquo;ll say aluminum. If yoursquo;re British yoursquo;ll say aluminium. But the guy who came up with the stuff called it alumium at first. SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for

Perhaps it is the rise in the popularity of body piercing that has made the word tragus a more recognizable word. SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. When I first came across the word I was s