Sorry to break it to you, but ‘mischievous’ isn’t “miss-CHEE-vee-uss,” and ‘boatswain’ isn’t “BOAT-swain.” We’re breaking it all down in the latest episode of The List Show on YouTube.

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George Orwell brought a vocabulary fit for a dystopia into the world. Corporate jargon sounds eerily similar.
Getting laid off has long been associated with getting a fancy pink invitation to the unemployment line. Why?
We give you an obscure word with four definitions—one correct, three made up. Can you identify the correct one?
Know what you’re talking about when you sing “troll the ancient Yuletide carol.”
Those brightly wrapped packages we exchange around the holidays and other special occasions: Sometimes we call them “gifts,” sometimes “presents.” Is there a difference?
We give you an obscure word with four definitions—one correct, three made up. Can you identify the correct one?
The six-sided tool helped make IKEA a household name. But did anyone named Allen have anything to do with it?
Here are 2024's trickiest terms to say, half of which are famous names.
Americans have no lack of idioms for snow and other features of winter weather. Here are 15 regional terms you should know.
We give you an obscure word with four definitions—one correct, three made up. Can you identify the correct one?
The phrase for being terminally online is not flattering, but it is Oxford’s Word of the Year.
To get to the answer, we need to discuss Latin, wooden stakes, Catherine the Great, and, of course, Shakespeare.
Solving the etymological mysteries of 'innocent,' 'disgruntled,' and other prefix-dependent words.
The origins of the term come from the Irish word for “ring.”
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