This week, the Butter No Parsnips gang reflects on a year of words. With poetry, leisurely strolls down memory lane, and special cameos by voices from their past, Emily, Kyle, and Seth celebrate what one year of an etymology podcast can do to a trio of friends.

This week, Emily and Kyle look at a real doozy of a word, zemblanity, and its equally delightful companion word, serendipity.

Kyle and Emily dive into the world of public performance and many other professions to explore mogiphonia, as well as its sister words mogigraphia and mogilalia.

We hope you brought your BEC, cause this week Emily and Kyle are talking about their deeply-ingrained Long Island roots. …Oh, and they’re also talking about the meaning of shibboleth!

This week Kyle and Emily pack up some snacks, get some showtunes going, and take a road trip through the meaning and history of the caravanserai.

Come along with Emily and Kyle as they discuss the incunable (not an adjective!) and the beginning of books as we know them.

Kyle and Emily glimpse into their crystal ball and reveal a word that melds birdwatching and divination into one: alectryomancy.

Kyle, Emily, and special guest Arne Christensen (@chiral_light) sit down and chew the fat about digestion, and medical terminology at large.

This week Emily and Kyle travel eastward, taking a look at the Sanskrit language and at the little-known word bahuvrihi.

Kyle and Emily sate their etymological appetite once again, as they discuss the sinfully satisfying word ‘ingordigious.

This week, Emily and Kyle explore the word “grognard,” its roots in French history, and its modern usage in tabletop gaming.

Kyle and Emily journey from ancient Greek philosophy to American transcendentalism, as they delve into the history of the ‘lyceum.’

Emily and Kyle chat it up with writer T Campbell in this puzzling episode of Butter No Parsnips as they uncover the multiple meanings of the term 'logology' and venture into the fascinating world of wordplay.

Seth opens the Lexiconicon again this week in this captivating episode of Butter No Parsnips where Kyle and Emily explore the indexy world of hapax legomena.

On this episode of Butter No Parsnips, Kyle and Emily dive deep into the fascinating etymology of the word “quark” and the complexity of particle physics.

You’ll be quaking in your buckled shoes this episode as Emily learns the naming origins of name-words, finds herself in the middle of a mistaken-identity crisis, and discovers Kyle’s new fascination with oat-based meals.

Pull out your history books, kids! This week, Kyle does a refresher course on the French Revolution, the British Parliament holds a rather nervous meeting, and Emily reveals the unexpected origins of some everyday words.

Hungry? This episode isn’t for you. Join Emily and Gross Kyle as they separate myth from fact from food, learn about how the Romans really threw sorority parties (Bring Your Own Bull), and discover that Jesus might have had some Dionysian inspiration.

Kyle and Emily discover a simple, relatable way to explain difficult medical concepts, discuss an impressively long-running publication, and review the more doubtfully long-running life of one Thomas Parr.

Celebrate Women’s History Month the Butter No Parsnips way: by remembering how men have been, historically, big jerks. Listen as Kyle tactfully connects the dots between cavil and another familiar accusatory word, Emily is transported to John Wayne Wycliffe’s Old English West, and the right famous Queen of Navarre finally gets some retribution for “vertuous women of all ages”.