Welcome to Lexitecture!
Greetings fellow word nerds!
You’ve found the online home of your new favourite source of random etymology from a pair of language geeks from either side of The Pond.
The premise is simple: in each episode, two friends (Ryan, a Canadian, and Amy, a Scot) get together armed with a new chosen word, and then they regale each other (and you!) with whatever bits of fascinating trivia they’ve been able to uncover about the origins and histories of those words, tracing through the ages to decipher just how each word got from its beginnings to its current use.
You can find our latest episodes below, or visit our archive to find all of them. You can also visit our lexicon to see an alphabetical list of every word we’ve talked about!
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Episode 128: Taskmaster Handicap
In this episode, Amy keeps everything on track as the “taskmaster“, while Ryan is trying to weigh how much cheese a duck costs with “handicap“. For those interested (which should be literally 100% of the listening audience), here is Carrot In A Box. For those interested (which should be literally 100% of the listening audience),...
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Episode 127: Pitch Harmony
In this episode, Amy keeps it all together with “harmony“, while Ryan is considering sticky angles with “pitch“, that he never knew in the first place. Lexitecture is a podcast about etymology (the linguistics study of the origin and history of words). In each normal, increasingly infrequent episode, a Canadian (Ryan) and a Scot (Amy)...
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