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Dec 23, 2021

The Allusionist

read Allusionist 148. Bonus 2021 I've been saving them up all year, and now it's time for the annual selection box of Bonus Bits! Things this year's guests said that couldn't fit into their episode, or weren't related to language, but ARE related to being a bonus bit. We've got percussive pan protests; the mating habits, and male-killing habits, of ladybirds; Icelandic aunts/uncles/cousins/wait which member of the extended family are you referring to?; Morse code machines; and a surprisingly heated topic, the semantics of
Dec 07, 2021

The Allusionist

read Allusionist 147. Survival: Today, Tomorrow part 2 "It's really good if we can get the changes through here - that can be an inspiration for other other countries or other places in the world," says Þorbjörg Þorvaldsdóttir, chair of Samtökin ’78, the national queer organization of Iceland. In 2019, Iceland passed the Gender Autonomy Act, which added an option for people to register their official gender as X; with it, the country's strictly binary-gendered naming laws were suddenly transformed. Other changes, like a new genderfree pronoun,
Dec 04, 2021

The Allusionist

read Festivelusionist 'Tis the season for the festive Allusionists! Which are some of my favourite ever episodes. Here’s your playlist - these are all in your podcast app too, of course:A Festive Hit for 2020The usual canon of holly jolly Christmas songs doesn’t really fit the mood of 2020. So Jenny Owen Youngs and I wrote one that does. And it’s a banger! The rest of the Festivelusionists are — seasonal pun not intended — evergreen, but this one’s only relevant to The Holidays 2020, so listen, listen right NOW!And t
Nov 24, 2021

The Allusionist

read Allusionist 146. Survival: Today, Tomorrow part 1 The Icelandic language has remained so stable over the centuries, speakers can read manuscripts from 900 years ago without too much trouble. And when they need a new word for more recent concepts, there are committees to coin one, so that the modern Icelandic lexicon includes such things as the internet, helicopters and mansplaining. Defending the language from the encroachment of English, however, is rather more challenging.
Nov 08, 2021

The Allusionist

read Allusionist 145. Parents When you're trans and pregnant, some of the vocabulary of pregnancy, birth and parenting might not fit you. In face, some of it might not even work for people of ANY gender. Trans parents Freddy McConnell and CJ talk about gender-additive language, inclusive for women and other genders, and about how in English law, the word 'mother' becomes semantically very complicated indeed.
Oct 27, 2021

The Allusionist

read Allusionist 144. Aro Ace The word 'asexual' has been used by humans describing themselves for several decades; 'aromantic' is newer. Both words enable people to voice identities that were unacknowledged for centuries, to find each other and build communities together, and to provide counternarratives to what the allosexuals are pushing.
Oct 13, 2021

The Allusionist

read Allusionist 143. Hedge Rider Today it's the etymologies you requested! And a few you didn't! We've got witches, wizards, warlocks; conjurers and cloves; wood shavings, nice gone nasty, and a whole lot more. Plus, a bold method of scaring away a ghost, if you must.
Sep 25, 2021

The Allusionist

read Allusionist 142. Zero Did any number cause as much trouble as zero? It stranded ships; it scrambles the brains of mathematicians, calendar users and computers; it even got itself banned in Florence. Math(s) communicator and drag queen Kyne explains the Terminator of numbers.
Sep 11, 2021

The Allusionist

read Allusionist 141. Food Quiz Quiz time! Samin Nosrat and Hrishikesh Hirway of Home Cooking podcast join to deliver questions about food etymology, as well as what are the two words that make a dance track, and whether 'za' is an acceptable abbreviation for 'pizza'. Play along and keep track of your score using the interactive scoresheet further down this post.
Sep 05, 2021

The Allusionist

read Stream the new live show! A new Allusionist live show has arrived! The first performance was yesterday, and I haven’t booked in other gigs yet*, so it might be the only performance, TBD. Good news though: the show is still available thanks to the Kings Place player for a week! So you can watch it HERE until 4.30pm UK-time Saturday 11 September. And you should, because the show is packed full of entertainment, music and EPONYMS. We’ve got the Bechdel Test, uzis, the Thatcher Effect, pilates, Shirley Temples, saxop

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