Fiat Lex: A Dictionary Podcast
Education
Lots of people use dictionaries not for the definitions--who cares about those?--but for the pronunciations. Steve and Kory talk about how those pronunciations came to be, and why the pronunciation editor gets to watch TV all day instead of getting a REAL JOB. They explain what that stupid bananapants alphabet that American dictionaries use for pronunciations is, drop some hot history on how pronunciations got into dictionaries, and go very inside-baseball on how editors figure out which pronunciations to include when they get stuck. Kory talks about Walter Cronkite and lingerie; Steve talks about flaps. And if that wasn't enough, did you know that dictionaries enter the "noo-KYOO-lur" pronunciation of "nuclear"? They sure as shootin' do!
BONUS FEATURES:
- Arthur the Rat!
- Tattoos! (Steve's, not Kory's)
- The dankest of nerd memes
- Stamper Mispronunciation Index: 1 intentional, 1 unintentional, 1 disputed
Allsorts 2: "Match Game" Wednesday [EXPLICIT]
Oakgarry, Oak Ross: Always Be Copyediting
Friends with Words: More Jesse Sheidlower [EXPLICIT]
Friends With Words: Jesse Sheidlower [EXPLICIT]
Allsorts 1
I Want to Be A Dord
Beginnings, or, Ježíšmaria/Paskan marjat
The End of the Line (Literally)
My Blue God: Hard Words
Descriptivism and Prescriptivism
Getting A Word Into The Dictionary
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