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Season 1

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  • TheTVDB.com Season ID 2049764
  • Created February 25, 2023
  • Modified May 17, 2023
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Name First Aired Runtime Image
S01E01 Winning Words, Banished Words
The Great Courses
S01E02 The Life of a Word, From Birth to Death
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S01E03 The Human Hands behind Dictionaries
The Great Courses
S01E04 Treasure Houses, Theft, and Traps
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S01E05 Yarn and Clues - New Word Meanings
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S01E06 Smog, Bomb, Bling - New Words
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S01E07 "Often" versus "Offen" - Pronunciation
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S01E08 Fighting over Zippers
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S01E09 Opening the Ealy English Word-Hoard
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S01E10 Safe and Sound - The French Invasion
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S01E11 Magnificial Dexterity - Latin and Learning
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S01E12 Chutzpah to Pajamas - World Borrowings
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S01E13 The Pop/Soda/Coke Divide
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S01E14 Maths, Wombats, and Les Bluejeans
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S01E15 Foot and Pedestrian - Word Cousins
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S01E16 Desultory Somersaults - Latin Roots
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S01E17 Analogous Prologues - Greek Roots
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S01E18 The tough Stuff of Englis Spelling
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S01E19 The b in Debt - Meddling in Spelling
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S01E20 Of Mice, Men, and Y'all
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S01E21 I'm Good ... Or Am I Well?
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S01E22 How Snuck Sneaked In
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S01E23 Um, Well, Like, You Know
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S01E24 Wicked Cool - The Irreverence of Slang
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S01E25 Boy Toys and Bad Eggs - Slangy Wordplay
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S01E26 Spinster, Bachelor, Guy, Dude
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S01E27 Firefighters and Freshpersons
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S01E28 A Slam Dunk - The Language of Sports
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S01E29 Fooling Around - The Language of love
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S01E30 Gung Ho - The Language of War
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S01E31 Filibustering - The Language of Politics
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S01E32 LOL - The Language of the Internet
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S01E33 #$@%!—Forbidden Words
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S01E34 Couldn’t (or Could) Care Less
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S01E35 Musquirt and Other Lexical Gaps
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S01E36 Playing Fast and Loose with Words
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