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podictionary weekly # 176 – October 13 to 17

Oct 17th, 2008 | podcast

 

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Podictionary weekly is an audio compilation of the five words of the day from the daily version of the podictionary podcast.

Monday’s podictionary word was red tape
Tuesday’s word history was for slide
Wednesday’s word origin was for antidisestablishmentarianism
Thursday’s etymology, posted at OUPblog was for stutter and
Friday’s word root was for the word figure

Transcripts of all of the above episodes are available by following the links.

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