rimbaud – jo vraca

A poem that inspired a book

This, poem, written by Rimbaud when he was 16, inspired by Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, will inspire my next novel. Not so much the poem itself,…

Say What latest Episode

Say What The Podcast

Say What?! The words we say, why we say them and where they come from. I’m Jo Vraca and each episode, I’m going to rub shoulders with the glitterati of the English language where we’ll learn that some of the more colourful, and even banal, words that we use every day have very un-English origins. I will look into how these everyday words came to mean what they do today. So we’ll be rocking through dictionaries AND encyclopedias.

We’ve heard the word, Catfishing, and doesn’t it feel like it’s been part of the zeitgeist forever? But Catfishing, as it’s used in popular culture, is a relatively new term, from 2010, actually.

And it was coined by a documentarian.

In this episode, I look at the history of the word catfishing, and actually take a look at its very long, but hidden history that has everything to do with catfish and cod.

So let’s deconstruct this!

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Produced by Jo Vraca. You can find my books on Amazon