370: Named Wrong (Live Q&A)
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English - July 09, 2019 09:16 - 29 minutes - 29.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 65 ratingsSocial Sciences Science Education Language Learning language linguistics words Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: 369: The Grammarian Is In (with Ellen Jovin)
Names are what they are, and as long as they work, they work.
But sometimes in the history of naming, people name things in a manner inapt to their nature or origin. So what's the story behind words like atom, peanut, and strawberry?
Daniel is unravelling these stories and more on this episode of Talk the Talk.