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Recently on our show I made a linguistic boo-boo-boo-boo. Did you catch it? We were talking

about the word podium and a listener named

Joel noted that the word podium originally meant something that you stand on but more

and more people are using it to mean something you stand behind

and Joel called to say he was none too happy about that.

So I told him he was right about the roots of the word

even though the meaning of the word podium, is now changing.

I feel your pain here, Joel.

Absolutely, podium comes from, ultimately, a Greek word meaning foot.

Yeah, but hear me out, hear me out.

It's like podiatrist, the doctor who looks after your feet, it's like antipodes, the people on the other side of the world

from us exactly.

There's a big old foot in that word.

There sure is.

Did you catch my mistake? Well, one of our listeners in Brazil did, a guy named Luciano

emailed from Botocatoo in the state of Sao Paulo to say that I'd

mispronounce that word for people who live on the other side of the world.

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