A Canadian (Ryan) and a Scot (Amy) talking about the words in the English language that fascinate them most at the moment, looking at their histories and origins and trying to piece together just how they got to where they are today.
This is a podcast for anyone interested in etymology (the study of words and their origins/history). If you've ever found yourself happier after discovering some bizarre bit of trivia about a word that you hadn't even given a second thought to (such as how the word 'trivia' relates to its Latin components meaning "three roads"), this might just be the podcast for you.
In this episode, Amy wonders about using rocks to dissolve bodies with "sarcophagus" and Ryan gets knocked around by Canadian winter with "blizzard".
Lexitecture is a podcast about words. In each ep…
In this episode, Ryan is all alone, wondering about why nobody watches Saturday morning cartons with "cartoon".
Lexitecture is a podcast about words. In each episode, a Canadian (Ryan) and a Scot (A…
In this episode, Amy is all on her lonesome and takes the opportunity to delve into the story and words behind our name: "Lexitecture".
Lexitecture is a podcast about words. In each (normal) episode…
In this super special episode, the one and only Helen Zaltzman (of The Allusionist and other wonderful podcasts) joins us to talk about collective nouns for animals (and hermits?), Amy stays untouche…
In this episode, Amy goes old school with "majestical" and Ryan dries out a torrent with "toast".
Lexitecture is a podcast about words. In each episode, a Canadian (Ryan) and a Scot (Amy) each prese…
In this episode, Amy worries about many holes with "trepanning" and Ryan thinks about Tolkein and 18th century cookery books with "fancy".
Lexitecture is a podcast about words. In each episode, a Ca…
In this episode, Amy is away and Ryan forgets the word "cognate" while looking into listener-suggested words like "rigorous", "vociferous", "phony" and "lake".
Lexitecture is a podcast about words. …
In this incredibly special, super exciting episode, wording class hero Susie Dent (of Countdown/8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown fame) chats in a gruntled, shevelled fashion about orphaned negatives, …