Your New Favorite Word

Tessa has “the guts” to dive deep into the connection between emotion words and bodily organs. Jamis talks about homonyms: words that sound or look the same, but have different meanings, and is “kind” enough to introduce several different “kinds”.

• 01:45 — Splenetic
• 03:02 — Relationship between the spleen and irritability
• 04:40 — Why we ascribe emotions/feelings to internal organs
• 05:57 — Bowels
• 07:19 — Viscera
• 07:45 — Gut
• 08:12 — Gall bladder
• 08:44 — Heart
• 09:40 — Liver
• 10:24 — Finnish study on body/emotion mapping
• 11:48 — “Light” vs. “light”
• 12:48 — Homonyms
• 13:24 — Homographic heteronyms
• 13:54 — Homophonic heterographs
• 14:23 — True homonyms (homographic homophones)
• 14:51 — Capitonyms
• 15:51 — Polysemes
• 17:05 — Bow/bow/bough
• 17:48 — Heterographic

• Hans Kurath’s 1921 dissertation on emotion words
• National Academy of Sciences article on bodily maps of emotions
• NPR article on bodily maps of emotions
• Homonym (Wikipedia)
• Heteronym (Wikipedia, look for the cool Euler diagram!)
• Homograph (Wikipedia, with a neat Venn diagram)
• Heterography and homography (Also Wikipedia!)
• Polysemy (Wikipedia)
• Bow, London (Wikipedia)
• Ricky Ricardo has “enough” of English (from I Love Lucy)