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100: Spicy Mailbag

Jun 19, 20241 hr 28 min
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Episode description

A hundred episodes already? To celebrate, we’re doing our favourite kind of episode: a Mailbag.

  • Why is it a BLOW JOB when there’s no blowing? Why JOB? And why is OFF often used in sexual expressions?
  • Why do we say NO SIRREE? Is there an equivalent expression for women?
  • Why does English have rare TH sounds like /θ/ and /ð/? Why doesn’t everyone?
  • HIS’N — is it related to IF’N?

Timestamps

  • Intros: 1:00
  • Questions (sexual): 8:46
  • Questions (non-sexual): 26:24
  • Related or Not: 42:12
  • More questions: 36:36
  • The Reads: 1:15:48
  • Outtakes: 1:20:11
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100: Spicy Mailbag | Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language. - Listen or read transcript on Metacast