Fletcher Powell

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Recent Pieces from Fletcher Powell

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Escher Sentences (And Other Nice Ways of Saying Nothing) (29:00)
From: KMUW

We'll look at phrases that seem at first glance to mean something, but are actually complete nonsense.
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Return of the Confusables (29:00)
From: KMUW

We get back to one of our favorite topics: words that sound a lot like other words but that mean totally different things.
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Weird Word Origins (28:58)
From: KMUW

This week, on You're Saying It Wrong: We're looking at weird word origins. When we think a word is related to something, but isn't.
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Pretending to be Proper (29:00)
From: KMUW

We look at some "rules" of the language that were mostly just made up so people could feel like they were speaking proper English.
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Sticky, Tricky Grammar Moments (29:00)
From: KMUW

We run through some particularly confusing grammar mistakes and how sometimes, we might think we’re saying one thing when we’re really saying another.
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Psilence! (29:00)
From: KMUW

We run through a few of the many, many English words that contain silent letters. And we'll hear some of the baffling reasons we pronounce those words the way we do.
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The Latin Craze (29:00)
From: KMUW

We dig into why certain words are spelled ridiculously, thanks to a bunch of scholars a few hundred years ago who got a little too nutso about making everything look Latin.
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Sneaky Rules We Don't Know We Follow (28:59)
From: KMUW

Some of us like to be rule breakers, but here are a few rules of the English language we can’t help but follow. And we probably don’t even know they exist.
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Hyperforeignisms Are Our Forte (29:00)
From: KMUW

We look at what happens when we approach non-English words with a little too much gusto, and how, exactly, we should be saying foreign words so that we don’t sound silly (a ...
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Doublespeak! (28:57)
From: KMUW

Doublespeak! We look at unconscious ways we follow the rules of English by doubling sounds and words, and how meanings of words can change when we say them twice. Now: are ...