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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This time, we are reading the names in alphabetical order by first letter.
But the way that the letter would be alphabetised if you go by the way the name of the letter sounds. So any name that starts with a W would come just after D because “double-u”.
And then by last letter, backwards.
- Ignacio
- Rodger
- Rhian
- Rach
- Rene
- Raina
- Diego
- Whitney
- WolfDog
- J0HNTR0Y
- James
- Jack
- Joanna
- gramaryen
- Andy
- aengryballs
- Andy from Logophilius
- Amir
- Ariaflame
- Alyssa
- Ayesha
- Helen
- Felicity
- Larry
- LordMortis
- Luis
- Lyssa
- Manú
- Matt
- Margareth
- Meredith
- Molly Dee
- Nasrin
- Nigel
- Nikoli
- Stan
- sæ̃m
- Sonic Snejhog
- Steele
- Elías
- Kathy
- Kristofer
- Kevin
- Keith
- Kate
- O Tim
- PharaohKatt
- Chris W
- Canny Archer
- Colleen
- Chris L
- Cheyenne
- Termy
- Tony
- Tadhg
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Become a Patron!Show notes
blow v.2 | Green’s Dictionary of Slang
https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/qrmyczy#sn1c
job v.1 | Green’s Dictionary of Slang
https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/fgj34zi
More + one-syllable adjectives in comparatives | WordReference forums
https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/more-one-syllable-adjectives-in-comparatives.1402569/
Pitch Drop experiment | University of Queensland
https://smp.uq.edu.au/pitch-drop-experiment
Presence of Uncommon Consonants | WALS
https://wals.info/chapter/19
Inventories | PHOIBLE
https://phoible.org/inventories
Phonemic Diversity Supports a Serial Founder Effect Model of Language Expansion from Africa
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/51051997_Phonemic_Diversity_Supports_a_Serial_Founder_Effect_Model_of_Language_Expansion_from_Africa
Can a linguistic serial founder effect originating in Africa explain the worldwide phonemic cline?
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2016.0185
Phonemic diversity decays “out of Africa”?
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3090
[PDF] Lend Me Your Ears: Otitis Media and Aboriginal Australian languages
https://ling.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Anelisa%20Fergus.pdf
Th-fronting
https://notoneoffbritishisms.com/2012/12/27/th-fronting/
Iffen ya brung a gun | Grammarphobia
https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2015/04/iffen.html
SCTV: Grapes of Mud
https://youtu.be/MqBvwHqr7fk?si=xUYKnYcBmkRy9REq
When Is Mother’s Day Around The World?
https://blog.officeholidays.com/general/when-is-mothers-day-around-the-world/
International Womens Day
https://www.internationalwomensday.com
International Mens Day
https://internationalmensday.com
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