Words Unravelled with RobWords and Jess Zafarris
Hosted by Jess Zafarris and RobWords and Rob · Words Unravelled with RobWords and Jess Zafarris
4.9from 143 ratings
- 114
- Episodes
- 34
- Transcribed
- 143
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
- 8M
- YouTube views
About Words Unravelled with RobWords and Jess Zafarris
Jess Zafarris and Rob Watts unravel the stories behind everyday words. Want to watch our episodes too? Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8R3ZnESMdsuTevq4ib9CvA (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8R3ZnESMdsuTevq4ib9CvA)
- Publisher
- Words Unravelled with RobWords and Jess Zafarris
- Category
- education · history · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 25 Mar 2024
- Latest episode
- 16 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
34 of 114 episodes have a transcript.
16 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
100 quick-fire word facts | 100th EPISODE
26 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Which German terms are in the English zeitgeist? | GERMAN WORDS
19 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Why is English full of Latin? | LATIN WORDS
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100 quick-fire word facts | 100th EPISODE
Published 16 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] The Egyptian word means great house. Oh, beautiful. Excellent. We did one about, so we occasionally do an episode about idioms where we try to explain idioms. This was idioms episode three. And I brought the fact that the phrase full of beans originally referred to a well-fed horse, a horse that has had their beans is energetic and more likely to win a race. It's not got anything to do with feeding beans to people. This one ended up diverging into an entirely food dedicated episode. And that was by accident, but that's where we landed. Yeah. We've only been comparing apples and oranges for just over a century. […]
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- 4.9 / 5
- 143 ratings
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- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
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