Podcasts by Animalogy \ The Animals in Our Everyday Words
ANIMALOGY is a podcast about language, the animal-related words and phrases we use every day, and how they reflect and affect our relationship with animals. Hosted by Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, bestselling author, long-time podcaster, and self-proclaimed zoolinguaphile, Animalogy will change the way you talk -- and think -- about animals. For show notes and more, visit animalogypodcast.com.
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Vaccines Are Full of Bull? Animal-Related Words for Diseases and Cures from 2020-03-31T17:22:21
In earlier episodes of Animalogy Podcast, we talked about parts of our anatomy named for their resemblance to animals, such as muscle
Don’t Get Fleeced or Pull the Wool Over Your Eyes: Expressions from the Hair of Sheep from 2018-01-18T17:56:30
Have you ever been "fleeced"? Have you ever "gone in search of the golden fleece" or "pulled the wool over someone's eyes"? Are your opinions "dyed in the wool"? In today's episode of Animalogy,...
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Berserk for Bears: Words from our Ursine Animals from 2017-09-23T15:04:22
We have many words built from the English word for "bear," the Latin word for "bear," and the Greek word for "bear," and we have many expressions and phrases built from the same ursine animal. O...
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Drawing Listeners Like Flies (Hopefully): Words from our Winged Insects from 2017-09-13T17:06:15
The word “fly” is a very old word, and of course we have many expressions and nouns that contain the word "fly" itself, but do you know that there are dozens of familiar words whose origins resi...
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What's in a Name? The Soul of an Animal from 2017-07-07T20:59:17
In a pivotal scene in David Lynch’s film, The Elephant Man, the main character turns on those who are cruelly taunting him and declares “I am not an elephant! I am...
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Geographical Place Names with Animal Origins from 2017-06-25T22:14:08
If I asked you to name some cities and countries named after animals, how many could you come up with? You might think of obvious ...
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Piggyback: Animal Words with No Animal Origins from 2017-05-28T15:18:13
"Piggyback" has nothing to do with pigs! In fact, there are many seemingly animal-related words and phrases in the English language that have nothing to d...
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Animals in Our Bones: Anatomy Terms from Animals from 2017-05-21T14:42:31
By now you would have listened to the Animalogy episodes about the words muscle, coc...
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Vegetarians Eat Meat: The History and Future of the Word from 2017-05-07T11:15:36
The word meat goes back at least as far as 731 AD, but it didn't mean then what it does ...
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Animal Characteristics in Word Histories: Who They Are in What We Say from 2017-04-16T14:36:45
Whereas the word veal in English simply m...
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Old English Pigs and Old French Pork: The Linguistic Cleaving of Animals from 2017-04-09T19:29:58
Roughly 10,000 new words entered the English language during the Norman occupation and assimilation, particularly those having to do with the world of the ruling c...
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No Critters Harmed: Colors Inspired by Living Animals from 2017-04-02T12:44:11
In a previous episode on words for different colors, an episode called Ingrained: A Crush of Color, I talked about the names we have for colors based on animals wh...
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Ingrained: A Crush of Color from 2017-03-18T15:04:37
When something is ingrained, it’s "deeply rooted" or "firmly fixed," pertaining to qualities, dispositio...
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Toady: Lick My Boots and Curry My Favor from 2017-03-10T22:53:10
A toady is a person who flatters and ingratiates himself or herself to another person in a servile way; a toady is a sycophant, a flatterer, especially someone who...
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Who Owns the Word "Milk"? from 2017-03-03T20:28:02
For years, the dairy industry has been trying to make it illegal for nondairy milk companies to use the word “milk," asserting that the word “milk” should be used ...
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Animals in the Alphabet from 2017-02-24T17:44:30
Animalogy is all about the animal-related words and phrases in the English language, but did you know there are animals in the very letters that make up our words?...
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Tragedy: A Goat's Lament from 2017-02-18T16:41:32
Tragedy n. "goat song" Named for the dramatic plays of the ancient Greeks, characterized by a protagonist whose flaw or error in judgmen...
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The Semantics of Meat (with Paul Shapiro) from 2017-02-11T00:00:53
Semantics play a significant role in shaping public perception about animals and animal welfare. The meat, dairy, and egg industries go to great lengths to remove ...
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Don't Get My Goat - I'm Not Kidding from 2017-02-04T17:43:45
In this episode of Animalogy, we explore the goat-related words and expressions in our everyday language — particularly those formed by the Old English words goat,...
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Falconry: Fed Up and Looking Haggard from 2017-01-28T17:37:37
The practice of hunting wild birds with trained birds -- for fun is called falconry. Though it came into its own almost 1,000 years ago in England after the Norman...
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Muscle: Flex Your Mouse from 2017-01-22T17:07:28
Roll up your sleeve past your bicep, flex your arm at the elbow, and squeeze — or contract — your bicep muscle. Take a look at it. Now, relax it -- keep looking at...
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Eating Crow? Try Eating Humble Pie, Instead. from 2017-01-17T15:00
If you’ve made a serious faux pas and need to acknowledge it with humility, you might be said to be “eating crow” or “eating humble pie,” both phrases of which inv...
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Zodiac: A Circle of Animals — Literally from 2017-01-11T18:21:19
Of the 88 constellations officially recognized by Western astronomy, 40 of them are named after animals — 43 if you count the mythical animals. We’re going to talk...
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History of English in 10(ish) Minutes from 2017-01-08T18:09:56
Throughout the episodes of Animalogy, I’ll be talking about the Proto-Indo-European reconstructed language, the related Indo-European languages, Old English (or An...
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Coccyx: Please Don't Sit on the Cuckoo from 2016-12-16T15:10:02
Coccyx is a small triangle-shaped bone at the base of the spinal column in humans and other apes, such as gibbons, orangutans, gorillas, and chimpanzees. Represent...
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Inauguration: On a Wing and a Prayer from 2016-12-14T23:08:52
This inaugural episode of Animalogy, a podcast about the animal-related words and expressions we use every day, takes us back to the politics of ancient Rome to re...
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What is Animalogy? from 2016-12-13T00:03:57
Drawing upon etymology, history, linguistics, literature, anthropology, sociology, and psychology, Animalogy unpacks the idioms, euphemisms, metaphors, semantics, ...
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