language

This hour, The Colin McEnroe Show is all about things that are “so bad, they’re good” — we’re talking about bad writing, bad smells, and bad dates. Plus: a chance to vote on what "bad" show idea we should produce next!

This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show: spelling — what it is, why it matters, and why some of us actually find it fun.

This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show: vibes. We learn what the word really means, where it comes from, and how the internet has given it new life.

This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, an appreciation of the writer and public intellectual Martin Amis, who died last week, and a look back at his 2018 appearance on this show.

This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show we're talking about bedtime stories. What can we learn from people who write and tell them? How can we all be more intentional and magical about the last things we think about before sleeping?

This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, a look at those books that we find unreadable, whether they’re too long, too difficult, too confusing, or too dated. What makes a book unreadable?

This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, our new favorite way to communicate: emoji.

This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show: a conversation with novelist Emily St. John Mandel, about time travel, the simulation hypothesis, adapting her work to television, art and culture during times of crisis, autofiction, Wikipedia, and much more.

This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, we look at mis-speaks, mis-hearings and mis-understandings, like malapropisms, mondegreens, eggcorns, and spoonerisms. We'll share our favorite examples and learn about what they can tell us about the English language, and how our brains process language.

This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, the art and the etiquette of the online review.