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America's Secret Slang, Cut to the Chase
America's Secret Slang proves that we speak history every day as it documents the stories behind our unique American version of English, from words like "southpaw" to phrases like "bet your bottom dollar".
In this episode we look at how entertainment from circuses and vaudeville to plays and movies, influenced the...
America's Secret Slang proves that we speak history every day as it documents the stories behind our unique American version of English, from words like "southpaw" to phrases like "bet your bottom dollar".
In this episode we look at how entertainment from circuses and vaudeville to plays and movies, influenced the common words and phrases we say every day.
America's Secret Slang, Season 1, Episode 1, Guns, Booze, and Politics
America's Secret Slang proves that we speak history every day as it documents the stories behind our unique American version of English, from words like "southpaw" to phrases like "bet your bottom dollar".
Politics is full of odd phrases like "pork barrel projects", "slush funds", and "lame ducks" -- all of which...
America's Secret Slang proves that we speak history every day as it documents the stories behind our unique American version of English, from words like "southpaw" to phrases like "bet your bottom dollar".
Politics is full of odd phrases like "pork barrel projects", "slush funds", and "lame ducks" -- all of which had practical origins and morphed to mean what they do today.
America's Secret Slang, Season 1, Episode 2, Them's Fighting Words
America's Secret Slang proves that we speak history every day as it documents the stories behind our unique American version of English, from words like "southpaw" to phrases like "bet your bottom dollar".
Have you ever wondered why someone who can't get it together is called a "basket case"? Or where the term "Ya...
America's Secret Slang proves that we speak history every day as it documents the stories behind our unique American version of English, from words like "southpaw" to phrases like "bet your bottom dollar".
Have you ever wondered why someone who can't get it together is called a "basket case"? Or where the term "Yankee" came from?
America's Secret Slang, Season 1, Episode 3, Y'all Speak Country
America's Secret Slang proves that we speak history every day as it documents the stories behind our unique American version of English, from words like "southpaw" to phrases like "bet your bottom dollar".
The American South has given us words like "y'all" and "rednecks" as well as dozens of colorful phrases like...
America's Secret Slang proves that we speak history every day as it documents the stories behind our unique American version of English, from words like "southpaw" to phrases like "bet your bottom dollar".
The American South has given us words like "y'all" and "rednecks" as well as dozens of colorful phrases like "fly off the handle", "having an axe to grind", and "barking up the wrong tree."
America's Secret Slang, Season 1, Episode 4, West Word, Ho!
America's Secret Slang proves that we speak history every day as it documents the stories behind our unique American version of English, from words like "southpaw" to phrases like "bet your bottom dollar".
Expressions from "riffraff" to "betting your bottom dollar", "passing the buck", "acid test" and even "heard...
America's Secret Slang proves that we speak history every day as it documents the stories behind our unique American version of English, from words like "southpaw" to phrases like "bet your bottom dollar".
Expressions from "riffraff" to "betting your bottom dollar", "passing the buck", "acid test" and even "heard it through the grapevine" all come from America's frontier days.
America's Secret Slang, Season 1, Episode 5, Coming to America
America's Secret Slang proves that we speak history every day as it documents the stories behind our unique American version of English, from words like "southpaw" to phrases like "bet your bottom dollar".
Ever wonder why American cowboys say "'git along little doggies" when they're talking about herding cattle?
America's Secret Slang proves that we speak history every day as it documents the stories behind our unique American version of English, from words like "southpaw" to phrases like "bet your bottom dollar".
Ever wonder why American cowboys say "'git along little doggies" when they're talking about herding cattle?
America's Secret Slang, Season 1, Episode 6, Talking Turkey
America's Secret Slang proves that we speak history every day as it documents the stories behind our unique American version of English, from words like "southpaw" to phrases like "bet your bottom dollar".
Americans have always loved to eat and expressions relating to food--from New York's "big apple" to "wake up...
America's Secret Slang proves that we speak history every day as it documents the stories behind our unique American version of English, from words like "southpaw" to phrases like "bet your bottom dollar".
Americans have always loved to eat and expressions relating to food--from New York's "big apple" to "wake up and smell the coffee" -- pepper our everyday speech. But where did they all come from?
America's Secret Slang, Season 2, Episode 1, Straight from the Horse's Mouth
America's Secret Slang proves that we speak history every day as it documents the stories behind our unique American version of English, from words like "southpaw" to phrases like "bet your bottom dollar".
Straight from the Horse's Mouth, America's Secret Slang, animals, food, sports, death, games. In this episode...
America's Secret Slang proves that we speak history every day as it documents the stories behind our unique American version of English, from words like "southpaw" to phrases like "bet your bottom dollar".
Straight from the Horse's Mouth, America's Secret Slang, animals, food, sports, death, games. In this episode, we look at the ways that American English has been transformed by animals, food, sports--and death. Ever wonder why we say "that's a...
America's Secret Slang proves that we speak history every day as it documents the stories behind our unique American version of English, from words like "southpaw" to phrases like "bet your bottom dollar".
Straight from the Horse's Mouth, America's Secret Slang, animals, food, sports, death, games. In this episode, we look at the ways that American English has been transformed by animals, food, sports--and death. Ever wonder why we say "that's a horse of a different color" or "that's for the birds"? Why do we "chew the fat" when we talk or "put up our dukes" when we fight? And why, when we die, do we "kick the bucket"? All these terms show the ways that American English has evolved and mutated through the animals we raise, the food we eat, the games we play, and the end we want to avoid. Zach Selwyn hosts.
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America's Secret Slang, Season 2, Episode 2, Riding Shotgun
America's Secret Slang proves that we speak history every day as it documents the stories behind our unique American version of English, from words like "southpaw" to phrases like "bet your bottom dollar".
Every day we use words and phrases that come from deep within our history. Their origins reveal a lot about u...
America's Secret Slang proves that we speak history every day as it documents the stories behind our unique American version of English, from words like "southpaw" to phrases like "bet your bottom dollar".
Every day we use words and phrases that come from deep within our history. Their origins reveal a lot about us and where we came from, but most of us have no idea what these terms originally meant. In this episode we look at how forms of transp...
America's Secret Slang proves that we speak history every day as it documents the stories behind our unique American version of English, from words like "southpaw" to phrases like "bet your bottom dollar".
Every day we use words and phrases that come from deep within our history. Their origins reveal a lot about us and where we came from, but most of us have no idea what these terms originally meant. In this episode we look at how forms of transportation from horses to trains to cars, and different intoxicating substances from opium to booze, influenced the common words and phrases we say every day. Why do insensitive people "ride roughshod" over others, while lucky people ride the "gravy train"? Who put the jay in "jaywalker", and the bus in "busboy"? Why are "highways" high, what do "turnpikes" turn, and why is a wild person "hell on wheels"? When it comes to substances, who put the hero in heroin, the junk in junkie, and the ooze in booze? And what's the connection between George Washington and the words grog and groggy?
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