With words, things are not always what they seem.
An etymology is a story about how a word or phrase got to be that way. How did your favourite phrases come about? Is it possible that the origins you’ve heard are not quite true? And how can you spot a fishy story?
Daniel, Ben, and Kylie are coming at you live for this episode of Talk the Talk.
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Show notes
Pinjarra
http://www.boodjar.sis.uwa.edu.au/boodjar-placenames/Pinjarra
Pinjarup | Ethnologue
https://www.ethnologue.com/language/pnj
Google’s Quest To Design A Typeface For Every Language On Earth
https://www.fastcodesign.com/3064379/googles-quest-to-design-a-typeface-for-every-language-on-earth
Google Fonts: Noto Sans
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Noto+Sans
What’s new in Unicode 9.0?
http://babelstone.blogspot.com.au/2016/01/whats-new-in-unicode-90.html
Good luck takes a reverse
http://www.news.com.au/national/good-luck-takes-a-reverse/story-e6frfkp9-1111118083194
Wiktionary: chock
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chock#Etymology_1
List of common false etymologies of English words
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_false_etymologies_of_English_words
Was ‘tip’ formed from an acronym of ‘To Insure Promptness’?
http://www.snopes.com/language/acronyms/tip.asp
Folk etymology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_etymology
The Word Detective: False etymologies
http://www.word-detective.com/2013/03/false-etymologies/
More about Break A Leg
http://www.theatrecrafts.com/pages/home/glossary-of-technical-theatre-terms/more-about-break-a-leg/
The Phrase Finder — a great resource.
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/b.html
Wiktionary: global weirding
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/global_weirding
Global Weirding Is Here – The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/17/opinion/17friedman.html?_r=0
Global warming vs climate change
https://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?r=326
Orthorexia: when healthy eating turns against you
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/sep/26/orthorexia-eating-disorder-clean-eating-dsm-miracle-foods
Orthorexia nervosa: when righteous eating becomes an obsession
https://theconversation.com/orthorexia-nervosa-when-righteous-eating-becomes-an-obsession-36484
Orthorexia nervosa – when healthy eating is no longer healthy
http://www.eufic.org/article/en/artid/orthorexia-nervosa/
Pete Evans is clueless about nutrition
http://scepticalnutritionist.com.au/?p=1523
Pete Evans slammed for ‘potentially damaging’ paleo diet advice to osteoporosis sufferer
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-29/pete-evans-slammed-for-advice-to-osteoporosis-sufferer/7793572
Doctor criticises chef Pete Evans for giving ‘potentially deadly’ diet advice
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/doctor-criticises-chef-pete-evans-for-giving-potentially-deadly-diet-advice-20160829-gr3ydb.html
Clean eating trend can be dangerous for young people, experts warn
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/oct/01/clean-eating-trend-dangerous-young-people-food-obsession-mental-health-experts
CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet online
http://www.csiro.au/en/Research/Health/CSIRO-diets/CSIRO-Total-Wellbeing-Diet-Online
The Butterfly Foundation
https://thebutterflyfoundation.org.au
Etymonline: helicopter
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=helicopter
Bully: A Vicious, Cowardly Word With a Long History
https://www.good.is/articles/the-history-of-the-word-bully
Image credit: Kylie Sturgess
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