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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.

What is up with the word Tomboy? Is it even politically correct to say it anymore? Without turning this into a gender studies episode, we’re going to learn where the word comes from, how it came to mean what it did, if it even does mean the same thing today, and the various translations because, yes, tomboys are everywhere and every country has its own nuanced definition and you may be surprised to learn that well, it’s a little more complex than sex, gender constructs and whether you wear skirts and climb trees.

So let’s deconstruct this!

Today’s episode features Freud’s Masculinity Complex, Calamity Jane, The Marvellous Mrs Maisel’s Suzie Myerson, and I completely butcher some foreign languages. Sorry.

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Tomboy – Is it Time to Retire This Word? No way!

11 October 2021

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A giraffe walks into a bar, and other likely stories