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14.09.

The Allusionist

read Allusionist 200: 200th episode celebratory quiz! I can scarce believe that I've made 200 episodes of this show, but here we are! To celebrate, here is a quiz about language where all the questions were set by YOU, the beautiful brainy listeners.
30.08.

The Allusionist

read Allusionist 199: 199 ideas that I hadn't made into podcasts yet Next episode is the 200th, therefore this is the 199th. I raid the 66-page documents of ideas for episodes, that I have been keeping for nearly a decade, and present to you 199 ideas that I have not yet made into podcasts (except for this one).
12.08.

The Allusionist

read Allusionist 198: Queer Arab Glossary Since 2019, Marwan Kaabour has been collecting Arabic slang words used by and about queer people, first for the online community Takweer, and now the newly published Queer Arab Glossary. "When researching for this book, I discovered so much of the sociopolitical, cultural, linguistic, and historical layers that make up the words," he says. He also discovered quite a lot about frying, white beans and worms (metaphorical ones).
12.08.

The Allusionist

read Hey! You! Be in the 200th episode The 200th episode of the Allusionist is coming up pretty soon, and I’d like us to have our annual quiz - listen to/play along with the previous ones here. But this time, I want to be able to play along too, so I would love for you to provide questions for the quiz.They can be multiple choice, or a format of your own devising; they just have to be about language in some form. And you can deliver them in either voice form or written, if you’d prefer for me to read it. Whichever way you do it, reme
07.08.

The Allusionist

read live tour of the UK! The Allusionist is going on a live tour of the UK in August and September 2024! It’s an all new show of stuff that has not been on the podcast (and may never be), about frenemies and strong font-based emotions and unintentional swears. It is called Souvenirs, and will be feelgood and fun to watch.All dates are on sale now, check theallusionist.org/events for ticket links. Preemptive answering of questions:
30.06.

The Allusionist

read Allusionist 197. Word Play 7: Word Sport At the Scripps National Spelling Bee, behind the spectacle of kids vying to be champion spellers, a whole lot of work goes on to make words into this word sport.
10.06.

The Allusionist

read Allusionist 196. Word Play 6: Beeing I went to the 2024 Scripps National Spelling Bee, to marvel at kids spelling words I had mostly never even heard of. But when you’re at Bee Week, the competitive spelling is merely the tip of the icebee.
02.06.

The Allusionist

read Pride playlist Hello! Here’s a playlist of episodes of the show that are good to listen to for Pride month, but also at any time, because they are some of the most interesting and complex language matters that I’ve covered in the show:Many Ways At Once. The Scots language didn’t have much of an LGBTQ+ lexicon. So writer and performer Dr Harry Josephine Giles decided to create one. Polari was a secret language that was used mostly by gay men in London. And now lives on in the
28.05.

The Allusionist

read Allusionist 195. Word Play 5: 100 Pages of Solvitude Cain's Jawbone, a murder mystery cryptic puzzle novella in the form of 100 pages presented in the wrong order, has many millions of possible solutions but only one that is correct. 86 years after it was published, writer, comedian and crossword constructor John Finnemore solved it. And then, craving another 100-page cryptic puzzle murder story, he wrote his own.
13.05.

The Allusionist

read Allusionist 194. Word Play part 4: Good Grids Exciting things have been happening with crossword puzzles in the US: more constructors, more outlets to get puzzles published, clues and answers that would never have appeared even a few years ago, and puzzle packs raising a whole lot of money for charities and humanitarian causes.

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