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When an etymology sounds too clever to be true, it often isn’t true. On this edition of That’s What They Say, Host Rina Miller and Professor of English at…

It seems like if you, or your clothes, or your hair can be disheveled, it should be possible for them to be sheveled.On this week’s edition of That’s What…

It’s odd when you stop to think about it that everyone who graduates from college is a bachelor of something.On this week’s edition of “That’s What They…

You can play your opponent in a tennis match, but can you verse them? Surprisingly, use of the term verse in reference to challenging another person only…

The word data is plural in Latin. But that etymological fact may not make it plural in English at this point. On this week’s edition of “That’s What They…

Everybody does it. When a conversation begins to lag, we fill the silence with a simple “You know,” or “I mean.”These phrases are often viewed as…

Calling speech “rhetoric” nowadays is often viewed as an insult, rather than as a compliment. Especially in relation to politics, “rhetoric” is used…

When you give someone "leeway" or tell someone to "pipe down," you may not realize you're using the language of sailors.On this week’s edition of “That’s…

On this week’s edition of “That’s What They Say,” host Rina Miller and Professor of English at the University of Michigan Anne Curzan discuss the irksome…

Do you say “a historical event,” or “an historical event?”On this week’s edition of “That’s What They Say,” Professor Anne Curzan of the University of…