Pants in the Boot

About Pants in the Boot

The United Kingdom and America are two countries separated by the same language, George Bernard Shaw never said, and we’ll be proving that in this podcast. We gather Incomparable panelists from the UK and America, as well as Canada and other English-speaking regions, and try to explain to each other the distinctions between biscuit and cookie, lemonade and fizzy water, public school and, er, public school, and why when we put our pants in our boot, we mean something altogether different.

Publisher

Glenn Fleishman

Category

science · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

6 May 2019

Latest episode

30 Jan 2023

Latest episodes

45 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   30 Jan 2023

   45: Pants in the Pants in the Boot

   Glenn takes a seat while panelists discuss literal American-style pants and trousers around the world that are designed for people who identify as women—and the many styles that fail to fit many bodies! Also: missing pockets—the agents of the patriarchy never rest....

2. 

   18 Jan 2023

   44: Expletive Delighted

   This episode features outbursts of descriptive words of body parts and fluids—and not just in English. We talk both about stuff people are uncomfortable saying and words that they use as freely as breathing air. With our international cast of characters on this episode, spanning three continents and two hemispheres, we mix English, Dutch, Russian, and Swedish, with a dash of Scots England....

3. 

   10 Oct 2022

   43: Thingumbob

   Languages are full of, um, filler words, you know, like, what’s it? We talk in this episode about doodads, whatchamacallits, mojang, and oder, right?...

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