In this episode, Amy ponders using bird guts to swear in US presidents with "auspicious" and Ryan tracks the faithful and foolish with "silly". Lexitecture is a podcast about words. In each episode, a Canadian (Ryan) and a Scot (Amy) each present their current favourite word and talk about its origins, current use, and try to puzzle out how it may have gone from A to B. If you love thinking and talking about words, word origins, or language trivia, this may be the show for you!

In this episode, Amy ponders using bird guts to swear in US presidents with "auspicious" and Ryan tracks the faithful and foolish with "silly".

Lexitecture is a podcast about words. In each episode, a Canadian (Ryan) and a Scot (Amy) each present their current favourite word and talk about its origins, current use, and try to puzzle out how it may have gone from A to B. If you love thinking and talking about words, word origins, or just random bits of head-scratching language trivia, this may be the show for you!

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