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.

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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.

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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

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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!

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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!)

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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.

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