{"podcast":{"title":"Words Unravelled with RobWords and Jess Zafarris","slug":"words-unravelled-with-robwords-and-jess-zafarris-6871407","podcast_index_feed_id":6871407,"rss_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5128892.rss","website_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5128892","image_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/41498897.png","author":"Words Unravelled with RobWords and Jess Zafarris","episode_count":94,"summary":"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","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T14:17:03.282672+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/words-unravelled-with-robwords-and-jess-zafarris-6871407"},"episode":{"title":"The words English forgot to invent | LEXICAL GAPS","slug":"the-words-english-forgot-to-invent-lexical-gaps","published_at":"2026-02-11T06:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/words-unravelled-with-robwords-and-jess-zafarris-6871407/the-words-english-forgot-to-invent-lexical-gaps","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/words-unravelled-with-robwords-and-jess-zafarris-6871407","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8859632","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/audioboom.com/posts/8859632.mp3?modified=1770755417&sid=5128892&source=rss","summary":"Why doesn't English have a word for someone who is alive? Or a general term for your aunties and uncles? Should we bring back the word 'uhtceare' from Old English or steal 'Torschlusspanik' from German? Rob and Jess answer these questions and more as they investigate the words that English has forgotten to invent. Join them to explore silly sniglets, outrageous orphaned negatives and untranslatable terms in another nerdy episode of Words Unravelled. 👕 OUR MERCH 👚 US SHOP: https://wordsunravelledshop.myspreadshop.com/ EU/UK SHOP: https://wordsunravelledshop.myspreadshop.net/ 👀 WATCH THIS EPISODE: https://youtu.be/PH64PZAjK_s","meta_description":"Why doesn't English have a word for someone who is alive? Or a general term for your aunties and uncles? Should we bring back the word 'uhtceare' from Old…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2575,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/words-unravelled-with-robwords-and-jess-zafarris-6871407/episodes/the-words-english-forgot-to-invent-lexical-gaps/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/words-unravelled-with-robwords-and-jess-zafarris-6871407/the-words-english-forgot-to-invent-lexical-gaps.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}