World Cup soccer made me think about the word goal. Sponsor: Hold your meetings online for just $49 a month Try GoToMeeting free. This seems to have been an Old English rooted word that was one of those used as what The Oxford

Sponsor: Hold your meetings online for just $49 a month Try GoToMeeting free. The other daymdash;as I was making my excuses about the podcast and invoking the fact that I, like everyone else, must eventually turn to dustmdash;a

From March 2006 The Devil's Dictionary does not have an entry for vegetarian. It does however, have one for carnivore: someone who is addicted to the cruelty of devouring timorous vegetarians, their heirs and assigns. I also visited urbandictionary seek

Originally from February 2006 While you and I know what an hour is, the people who invented the word had no clocks and for them an hour was not so much a length of time as a milestone through the course of the day. In English the word appears first in 1

This episode originally posted in 2006 When historians look back thousands of years, sometimes the evidence begins to get a little sketchy, so whether it was 2000 years ago or 3000 years ago or maybe far longer, the idea that the pattern of the heavens m

A re-run in honor of the World Cup of Soccer (originally aired in 2006) Sponsor: Hold your meetings online for just $49 a month Try GoToMeeting free. The podictionary word for today is ldquo;soccerrdquo;:nbsp; I began researchi

First posted December 2005 - that'd make this a re-run episode. When the word ldquo;showrdquo; first showed up in Beowulf well over 1000 years ago, it didnrsquo;t mean what we think of today, but instead referred to the other end of the field of view, it

A couple of weeks ago I used the F word in a podcast. I bleeped it out in the email and web versions but not in the audio version. I heard about that. This prompted me to look up the etymology of the word swear and Irsquo;ll get to that in a moment. Spo

Todayrsquo;s episode isnrsquo;t so much about a specific word or etymology. Itrsquo;s about the future of podictionary; though I do touch on the word simple towards the end. Sponsor: Hold your meetings online for just $49 a month Try

This episode was originally aired in April of 2006 I suppose the first time I encountered the word "wraith" was in the 70's when I read JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.nbsp; The ringwraiths were those black captains of evil that were roaming the land see