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Podcast: Today's Tolkien Times
Episode: Week 8 - Word-nerd Wednesday: The Bane of My Existence
Description: A quick study of lingustic dilution: or how Modern English has taken a word meaning “a worker of death” and turned it into a word meaning “that’s annoying”. The Man of the West likely butchers multiple languages in today’s episode, but he’s trying. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices