I was a guest on the Culture Study Podcast this week, talking with Anne Helen Petersen about the hidden history of weird English words.

We covered a lot of ground: why the spelling of “weird” is so, well, weird, why “yacht” is pronounced nothing like it looks, why a blackboard is a kind of board but a pickpocket isn’t a kind of pocket… and that’s just scratching the surface.

Listen here: patreon.com/posts/ridic…