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Spirits and Tongues

Spirits and Tongues is a podcast about food and drink, language and spirituality, written and edited by a couple of language nerds who are obsessed with all of the good things in life.

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Margins of Experience

Margins of Experience

Special episode alert! Scribbles in margins! Garnishes on plates! Connection to other people!

20 May 2021

17mins

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Viking

Viking

Some daily Viking vocab! The beverage of choice in Valhalla! Soup, but for Vikings! A magical spiritual practice (loosel... Read more

1 Oct 2020

27mins

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Autumn

Autumn

A peek into English spelling weirdness! A seasonal fruit... uh... vegetable? uhhhhh ... squash! The beverage of autumn! ... Read more

17 Sep 2020

22mins

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Taboo

Taboo

Words we say when we mean other things that we don't want to say! Things we don't eat! The forbidden sausage! Definitely... Read more

3 Sep 2020

23mins

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Rainbow

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The etymology of some key vocabulary of current events! Connections between spirituality and protests! A hero in the kit... Read more

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Early morning prayer rituals! Bitter, beautiful bean juice! Ova of poultry! Sentence starters!

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Fancy

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