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Word of the Week

Bevis (Norwegian): ‘evidence’
Ep. #394 – Pax Mongolica

Fairdinkum (Australian English): Are you serious? Are you telling the truth?
Ep. #386 – Furfy and Fairdinkum

Furfy (Australian English): an untruth or outlandish comment or story, so fantastical as to be beyond belief
Ep. #386 – Furfy and Fairdinkum

Kamu (Hungarian): ‘made up’, ‘lie’
Ep. #387 – The Board in front of the Head

Māņticība (Latvian): ‘Superstition’
Ep. #383 – Nanotech and quantum dots

Påstander (Norwegian): ‘claims’
Ep. #394 – Pax Mongolica

Rutgängare (Swedish): the profession of a person using a dowsing rod
Ep. #388 – It’s climate ‘crisis’, not ‘change’

Slagruta (Swedish): ‘dowsing rod’
Ep. #388 – It’s climate ‘crisis’, not ‘change’

Vrøvl (Danish): ‘nonsense, gibberish’
Ep. #392 – Flying Bat-people on the Moon