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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

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And with this post, you can learn that Blue Sky doesn't have the vertical video support you may have expected!

09.03.2026 19:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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

09.03.2026 19:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We insist!

18.11.2025 00:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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

17.11.2025 22:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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?...

10.11.2025 21:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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?...

25.09.2025 16:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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?...

23.09.2025 16:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 11 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
160. Useless Etymology with Jess Zafarris
160. Useless Etymology with Jess Zafarris YouTube video by Butter No Parsnips

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?...

22.09.2025 22:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 27 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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!

12.08.2025 01:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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...

12.08.2025 00:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

You thought exactly right!

08.08.2025 18:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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!

22.07.2025 16:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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.

28.05.2025 17:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We'd have to agree wholeheartedly.

02.04.2025 00:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0