Your New Favorite Word

Tessa presents the unexpected musical past of the word “gamut”, while Jamis shows how a single word can come to mean two completely opposite things in different languages.

• 00:39 — “Remember” and “dismember”
• 03:32 — “Gamut”
• 09:57 — “Churlish”
• 11:04 — “Villain” and “boor”
• 12:27 — Charlemagne

• Ut queant laxis, the “Hymn to St. John the Baptist” (Wikipedia)