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The Allusionist Episodes

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    Fiona part 1

    Fiona seems like a very old name, but it鈥檚 not. That鈥檚 not the only surprise about Fiona.

  2. Eclipse

    Lauren Marks is mid-karaoke... then wakes up in hospital with only a 40-word vocabulary.

  3. Craters

    PhD student Annie Lennox discovered a crater on Mercury and got the chance to name it

  4. Cairns

    Behind every Great Man of Lexicography was usually a team of women making his dictionary.

  5. Bonus 2023

    It's our annual parade of all the extra good stuff this year's podguests talked about

  6. Blood is not Water

    The Yiddish word for 鈥榖lack鈥� is a slur. How to translate Black Lives Matter without it?

  7. Beeing

    I went to the 2024 Scripps National Spelling Bee

  8. Apples

    How do apples get their names?

  9. 200th Episode Celebratory Quiz

    A quiz about language where all the questions were set by beautiful brainy listeners

  10. 199 ideas I hadn't made into podcasts yet

    199 ideas that I have not yet made into podcasts (except for this one)

  11. 100 Pages of Solvitude

    Comedian John Finnemore spent six months solving a 100-page puzzle. Then he wrote his own.

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