Big Words for Smart People
Eric and Frankie are not linguists. What Eric and Frankie lack in bona fides (boring fides, more like it) they make up for in sibling jocularity, rampaging tangents, and lighthearted ribbing. They already know you're a smart person, you don't need to be told that. Instead, join them every Wednesday to learn a new, cool, big word to enrich your new, cool, big brain and listen in on a casual conversation loosely connected to the word. BW4SP releases weekly to enrich your lexicon, ~30 minutes at a time. Interested in joining our community? Join the Discord! Have a suggestion for us and don't like Discord? Email us at bigwordsforsmartpeople@gmail.com! Support us! https://ko-fi.com/bw4sp
Episodes
Make using this word a key part of your identity, the word of the week is:
Endemic - adjective
1a: belonging or native to a particular people or country b: characteristic of or prevalent in a particular field, area, or environment 2: restricted or peculiar to a locality or regionEndemic - noun
1: an organism that is restricted or peculiar to a locality or region : an endemic org...Go off, Quang! It's a new word for Word Wednesday:
Idiosyncrasy - Noun
1a: a peculiarity of constitution or temperament : an individualizing characteristic or quality b: individual hypersensitiveness (as to a drug or food) 2: characteristic peculiarity (as of temperament)
In this episode:
- Tiny little, semi-transparent Stewie Griffin knockoff tee
- Diagn...
Eric's word for the week is that saucy little tail on the bottom of a 'c,' that's more fun to say than it is to type, it's 'cedilla.'
Cedilla - noun
: the diacritical mark ¸ placed under a letter (such as ç in French) to indicate an alteration or modification of its usual phonetic value (as in the French word façade)
In this episode:
- C is a stupid letter
- Ambush ha...
Happy Jejaugust! It's our highest energy, most hype episode yet! Jk, this ep is jejune af, y'all. Frankie and Eric are taking a relaxed stroll through their travel woes in this, BW4SPs quaternary episode.
Jejune - adjective
In th...The word of the week is: Fontanelle! Eric and Frankie are asking the tough questions. Questions like: what would you put in your soft fontanelle?
Fontanelle - noun (or fontanel)
- : a membrane-covered opening in bone or between bones
In this episode:
- Avoid the top-of-baby danger button (no soup allowed)
- Unqualif...
Frankie's brought us lamination this week - everyone's favorite superfluous office friend.
Lamination - noun
- the process of laminating
- the state of being laminated
- a laminated structure
- lamina (Eric's note: isn't this just the same thing but again?)
It's the premier episode and sibling duo Eric and Frankie are bringing you "encoding." It's a rambling journey to learn a new word - emphasis on journey.
Encoding - verb
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a: to convert (something, such as a body of information) from one system of communication into another
especially : to convert (a message) into code or, b: to convey symbolically - to specify the genetic code fo...
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