All Seasons

Season 1

• S01E01 Winning Words, Banished Words

  • The Great Courses

• S01E02 The Life of a Word, From Birth to Death

  • The Great Courses

• S01E03 The Human Hands behind Dictionaries

  • The Great Courses

• S01E04 Treasure Houses, Theft, and Traps

  • The Great Courses

• S01E05 Yarn and Clues - New Word Meanings

  • The Great Courses

• S01E06 Smog, Bomb, Bling - New Words

  • The Great Courses

• S01E07 "Often" versus "Offen" - Pronunciation

  • The Great Courses

• S01E08 Fighting over Zippers

  • The Great Courses

• S01E09 Opening the Ealy English Word-Hoard

  • The Great Courses

• S01E10 Safe and Sound - The French Invasion

  • The Great Courses

• S01E11 Magnificial Dexterity - Latin and Learning

  • The Great Courses

• S01E12 Chutzpah to Pajamas - World Borrowings

  • The Great Courses

• S01E13 The Pop/Soda/Coke Divide

  • The Great Courses

• S01E14 Maths, Wombats, and Les Bluejeans

  • The Great Courses

• S01E15 Foot and Pedestrian - Word Cousins

  • The Great Courses

• S01E16 Desultory Somersaults - Latin Roots

  • The Great Courses

• S01E17 Analogous Prologues - Greek Roots

  • The Great Courses

• S01E18 The tough Stuff of Englis Spelling

  • The Great Courses

• S01E19 The b in Debt - Meddling in Spelling

  • The Great Courses

• S01E20 Of Mice, Men, and Y'all

  • The Great Courses

• S01E21 I'm Good ... Or Am I Well?

  • The Great Courses

• S01E22 How Snuck Sneaked In

  • The Great Courses

• S01E23 Um, Well, Like, You Know

  • The Great Courses

• S01E24 Wicked Cool - The Irreverence of Slang

  • The Great Courses

• S01E25 Boy Toys and Bad Eggs - Slangy Wordplay

  • The Great Courses

• S01E26 Spinster, Bachelor, Guy, Dude

  • The Great Courses

• S01E27 Firefighters and Freshpersons

  • The Great Courses

• S01E28 A Slam Dunk - The Language of Sports

  • The Great Courses

• S01E29 Fooling Around - The Language of love

  • The Great Courses

• S01E30 Gung Ho - The Language of War

  • The Great Courses

• S01E31 Filibustering - The Language of Politics

  • The Great Courses

• S01E32 LOL - The Language of the Internet

  • The Great Courses

• S01E33 #$@%!—Forbidden Words

  • The Great Courses

• S01E34 Couldn’t (or Could) Care Less

  • The Great Courses

• S01E35 Musquirt and Other Lexical Gaps

  • The Great Courses

• S01E36 Playing Fast and Loose with Words

  • The Great Courses