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It's the annual bonus episode!
Throughout the year, the people who appear on the show tell me a lot of interesting stuff, not all of which is relevant to the episode they initially appeared in, so I stash it away in preparation for this moment. This year, hear about the history of roller skates, zazzification, giant origami, the heat death of the universe and more.
FEATURING, IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE:
Greg Jenner, fresh from checking the Dickensian-ness of the San Francisco Dickens Christmas Fair in episode 69: How the Dickens Stole Christmas.
Stephen Chrisomalis, who taught us a gajillion facts about indefinite hyperbolic numbers in episode 60: Zillions.
Katie Mack and Manan Arya, who unpicked the pseudo-science-speak in episode 64: Technobabble.
Caetano Galindo, who explained the trickiness of translation in episode 59: One to Another.
Kory Stamper, who as a lexicographer documents the ever-shifting English language as detailed in episode 54: The Authority.
The transcript of this episode is at theallusionist.org/transcripts/bonus2017.
YOUR RANDOMLY SELECTED WORD FROM THE DICTIONARY:
zoolatry
CREDITS:
Martin Austwick makes the music that you hear in every episode. He has a new album out at palebirdmusic.com.
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