100. The Hundredth
The Allusionist
Helen Zaltzman
4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
To mark the 100th* episode of the Allusionist, here’s a celebratory parade of language-related facts: some of your favourites from the Allusionist back catalogue, some of my favourites from the Allusionist back catalogue, and a load of fresh facts making their Allusionist debut.
*short hundred, not long hundred.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the illusionist in which I, Helen Zoltzman, have talked about language and why |
| 0:09.3 | and how we use it for 100 episodes. |
| 0:13.3 | Today, there will be a celebratory parade of language-related facts that you've learned |
| 0:17.6 | from the illusionist and I've learned from making the illusionist some old facts, some |
| 0:22.8 | new facts. |
| 0:23.8 | Well, the new facts aren't recently invented facts. |
| 0:27.2 | They are established facts that are making their illusionist debut. |
| 0:31.6 | If you have liked any of the 100 episodes of the illusionist, tell someone else about |
| 0:36.2 | it. |
| 0:38.2 | Content note, there will be swears on with the show. |
| 0:48.2 | 100 things we've learned about language from the illusionist in no particular order. |
| 0:53.8 | One, for me as an English teacher in Germany, the illusionist showed me again that there's |
| 1:00.4 | way more to language than just I am you are. |
| 1:04.6 | He shit is. |
| 1:05.6 | Of course, otherwise I would have had to pack in the illusionist after a couple of episodes. |
| 1:10.3 | Two, around 1200, the word foot. |
| 1:13.7 | As in, foot, meant a person and a non-foot was a nobody. |
| 1:19.8 | Girl, originally, could be used to refer to a child of any gender. |
| 1:24.3 | It didn't specifically denote a female child until the late 14th century. |
| 1:28.5 | Four. |
| 1:29.5 | The best thing I've learned on the illusionist is that woman is not actually derived from |
| 1:34.8 | man in the gendered way. |
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