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We answer some of your most burning questions as we take a dip into the ol' mailbag.
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For no reason whatsoever, we look at some words that come from Homer's famous tale and Ancient Greek more generally.
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We look at the confusing, but surprisingly intuitive, world of adjective and adverb order and how we can know what we're doing without knowing what we're doing.
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This week, we look at the (sometimes huge) differences between the technical, specialized definitions of words, and what they mean to everybody else.
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School's out, so we're celebrating all the new graduates by looking at the backgrounds of some graduation-related words.
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We return to one of our favorite (and sometimes most confusing) topics: rules of English that we know instinctively, but that we have no idea we know.
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Today we make a lot of noise by exploring nonverbal vocalizations: all those sounds that aren't words, exactly, but that still carry a lot of meaning.
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To split infinitives or to not split them? (Ir)regardless, we'll dive into some everyday language arguments that get people all worked up.
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Oh, so you think those two words mean exactly the same thing? Not. Even. Close.
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Kathy and Ross did their darndest to stump Fletcher in last week's spelling quiz, to moderate success. How will things go this week? The thrilling conclusion...
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Kathy and Ross pull out all the stops to try to trick Fletcher with a new spelling quiz. Fletcher does his best to upset them.
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Kathy, Ross, and Fletcher try to tackle the Welsh language, with... questionable results. Look, we're all doing our best here.