Disc 1. Winning words, banished words --
The life of a word, from birth ot death --
disc 2. The human hands behind dictionaries --
Treasure houses, theft, and traps --
disc 3. Yarn and clues -- new word meanings --
Smog, mob, bling -- new words --
disc 4. "Often" versus "offen" -- pronunciation --
disc 5. Opening the early English word-hoard --
Safe and sound -- the French invasion --
disc 6. Magnifical dexterity -- Latin and learning --
Chutzpah to pajamas -- world borrowings --
disc 7. The pop/soda/coke divide --
Maths, wombats and Les bluejeans --
disc 8. Foot and pedestrian -- word cousins --
Desultory somersaults -- Latin roots --
disc 9. Analogous prologues -- Greek roots --
The tough stuff of English spelling --
disc 10. The b in debt -- meddling in spelling --
Of mice, men and y'all --
disc 11. I'm good -- or am I well? --
disc 12. Um, well, like, you know --
Wicked cool -- the irreverence of slang --
disc 13. Boy toys and bad eggs -- slang wordplay --
Spinster, bachelor, guy, dude --
disc 14. Firefighters and freshpersons --
A slam dunk -- the language of sports --
disc 15. Fooling around -- the language of love --
Gung ho -- the language of war --
disc 16. Fillibustering -- the language of politics --
LOL -- the language of the internet --
disc 17. #$@%! -- forbidden words --
Couldn't (or could) care less --
disc 18. Musquirt and other lexical gaps --
Playing fast and loose with words.