english words and their origins

Lect.32 LOL—The Language of the Internet 

Lect.30 Gung Ho—The Language of War 

Lect.34 Couldn’t (or Could) Care Less 

Lect.07 “Often” versus “Offen”—Pronunciation 

Lect.06 Smog, Mob, Bling—New Words 

Lect.23 Um, Well, Like, You Know 

Lect.01 Winning Words, Banished Words 

Lect.24 Wicked Cool—The Irreverence of Slang 

Lect.02 The Life of a Word, from Birth to Death 

Lect.17 Analogous Prologues—Greek Roots 

Lect.22 How Snuck Sneaked In 

Lect.09 Opening the Early English Word-Hoard 

Lect.19 The b in Debt—Meddling in Spelling 

Lect.28 A Slam Dunk—The Language of Sports 

Lect.25 Boy Toys and Bad Eggs—Slangy Wordplay 

Lect.04 Treasure Houses, Theft, and Traps 

Lect.35 Musquirt and Other Lexical Gaps 

Lect.14 Maths, Wombats, and Les Bluejeans 

Lect.31 Filibustering—The Language of Politics 

Lect.18 The Tough Stuff of English Spelling 

Lect.20 Of Mice, Men, and Y’All 

Lect.36 Playing Fast and Loose with Words 

Lect.10 Safe and Sound—The French Invasion 

Lect.08 Fighting over Zippers 

Lect.27 Firefighters and Freshpersons 

Lect.13 The Pop/Soda/Coke Divide 

Lect.05 Yarn and Clues—New Word Meanings 

Lect.16 Desultory Somersaults—Latin Roots 

Lect.03 he Human Hands behind Dictionaries 

Lect.29 Fooling Around—The Language of Love 

Lect.12 Chutzpah to Pajamas—World Borrowings 

Lect.21 I’m Good … Or Am I Well? 

Lect.26 Spinster, Bachelor, Guy, Dude 

Lect.33 #$@%!—Forbidden Words