And with this post, you can learn that Blue Sky doesn't have the vertical video support you may have expected!
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Every week on Butter No Parsnips, your hosts Emily Moyers and Kyle Imperatore take you on an adventure through the weird, wacky, wonderful, and sometimes wicked history of one wayside word. www.BNPpod.com
And with this post, you can learn that Blue Sky doesn't have the vertical video support you may have expected!
This week, Emily and Kyle sit down with Kara Raynoha to talk about about her book tracking alternative worm.so.
Learn how tracking your reading might be able to support your community! @worm.so
Listen now wherever podcasts are available:
youtu.be/ev7m43-toCM
We insist!
Butter No Parsnips invites back an old friend with a new book! @leagueofthelexicon.bsky.social shares the story of how creating the most successfully funded word quiz game on Kickstarter led to his new book, The Language-Lover's Lexipedia.
Check it out:
youtu.be/xx6bcti_Dkw
This week, everything's backwards as Kyle and Emily chat with the master palindromist Barry Duncan to talk about the puzzling poetry of #palindromes.
Check it out wherever podcasts are:
Spotify: bit.ly/4oVE4Fc
YT: youtu.be/_NexIY6cOF8?...
It's come to our attention that yesterday was #NationalPunctuationDay. We were much too busy partying to post about it, but here's one from the archives:
84. Apostrophe with @apostrophesociety.bsky.social
Listen now:
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5LJy...
YouTube: youtu.be/oberXKRi_vs?...
This week, Butter No Parsnips welcomes back etymological powerhouse @jesszafarris.bsky.social (Words from Hell, Words Unravelled), whose latest book USELESS ETYMOLOGY proves that it is anything but!
Listen now!
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6zId...
YouTube: youtu.be/tEzEk5S0vJ0?...
The crew over at @butternoparsnips.bsky.social invited me to reprise my first appearance on their show, which is WONDERFUL in every sense of the term. Highly recommend subscribing. (And look, they even included my funny hand-book cutout in the thumbnail!)
youtu.be/tEzEk5S0vJ0?...
We've found that the impact of finding this out on your own is always greater than if we had just explained it. We hope that was true in this case!
This week Mignon Fogarty, aka @grammargirl.bsky.social, joins Kyle and Emily to explore CATACHRESIS, covering metaphorical mayhem, Mrs. Malaprop, and Poetry's Most Hated: John Cleveland.
Listen now!
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6QH8...
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
You thought exactly right!
We're steadily learning that a lot of folks seem to have some very personal connections to 'lagniappe'. A bit of a lagniappe itself to releasing the episode!
HAH, well, thank you for this. It's clear the man is merely putting a few numbers in proper order. And thank goodness for that.
We'd have to agree wholeheartedly.