Your New Favorite Word
Episode 1.14
Pandemonium ensues when Tessa tries to pronounce “pandemonium” and follows John Milton to the depths of Hell. Jamis then gathers eggcorns to share, with a surprise favorite word at the end. No spoilers!
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Highlights
- 01:34 — Pandemic
- 01:50 — Pandemonium
- 02:26 — Amanuensis
- 05:06 — Tailor’s hell
- 07:13 — Phono-semantic matching
- 09:16 — Eggcorn
- 13:16 — Mumpsimus
Show Notes
- Paradise Lost (Wikipedia)
- Phono-semantic matching (Wikipedia)
- Eggcorn (Wikipedia)
- “Egg Corns: Folk Etymology, Malapropism, Mondegreen, ???” (“Language Log” article introducing the concept of eggcorns)
- The Eggcorn Database
- Mumpsimus (Wikipedia)