33: Weird Words (featuring Rod L. Evans)




Talk the Talk show

Summary: Are you a word maven? Have you ever used an aglet? Do you know where to find an octothorp? These and other words are lurking in your dictionary, but they're brought to light in a new book, "Thingamajigs and Whatchamacallits: Unfamiliar Terms for Familiar Things". UWA linguist Daniel Midgley interviews author, philosopher, and philologist Rod Evans on this week's Talk the Talk.