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The Allusionist
Adventures in language with Helen Zaltzman. TheAllusionist.org

116. My Dad Excavated A Porno

The word ‘pornography’ arrived in English...

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: 30 minutes : 03-Jun-2020

117. Many Ways At Once

The Scots language didn’t have much of an L...

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: 17 minutes : 15-Jun-2020

118. Survival: Bequest

When the Europeans arrived in Aotearoa New Ze...

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: 28 minutes : 03-Jul-2020

119. Blood Is Not Water

The Yiddish word for ‘black’ is, in certa...

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: 25 minutes : 14-Jul-2020

120. Shine Theory

It’s great when you coin a phrase that real...

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: 18 minutes : 30-Jul-2020

The Away Team redux

After yet another spell of the British press ...

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: 20 minutes : 18-Aug-2020

Tranquillusionist: Home and Garden

This is the Tranquillusionist, in which I, He...

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: 20 minutes : 28-Aug-2020

In 2014, a seemingly trivial and boring incid...

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: 58 minutes : 14-Sep-2020

122. Ghostwriter

The word for ‘ghostwriter’ in French is a...

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: 22 minutes : 28-Sep-2020

Celebrity used to mean a solemn occasion; X f...

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: 27 minutes : 10-Oct-2020

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