Your New Favorite Word

This week, Jamis gives permission to call your loved one a “pig’s eye”, which, when pronounced “pigsney”, is actually a term of endearment. Just don’t be “a nidget” about it. Meanwhile, Tessa tells her word histories straight, no chicanery, pettifoggery, or quibbling.

• 00:40 — “Cookie”, “cake”, and “cook”
• 01:03 — “Pequeso”
• 01:37 — “Pigsney”
• 05:25 — Misdivision
• 11:33 — Chicanery

• Rebracketing (Wikipedia)
• The letter N (Etymonline)