by Jennifer Porter | Apr 13, 2025 | News
Wormhole-Wear Wednesdays (Episode 012) April 2025 Lost in Multiversal Translation April 16th is Wear Your Pajamas to Work Day. Ever paused to wonder about the cosmic origins of these dreamy garments? We commonly trace our Earth word pajamas to Persian roots—pai...
by Jennifer Porter | Mar 16, 2025 | News
Spectrum Envy? (Episode 011) March 2025 Lost in Multiversal Translation Merriam-Webster defines the word spectrum as, basically, the color spectrum, a range of light or energy, or another continuum. It says spectrum comes from the Latin specere,...
by Jennifer Porter | Feb 13, 2025 | News
The Valentine Fantasy (Episode 010) February 2024 Lost in Multiversal Translation Merriam-Webster defines the word valentine as a person chosen as a sweetheart, or a gift given to a sweetheart on Valentine’s Day. The word and the holiday seem to have...
by Jennifer Porter | Jan 15, 2025 | News
Irradiate the New Year! (Episode 009) January 2024 Lost in Multiversal Translation The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the word radiate as something that shines brightly and/or spreads out from a center point. It says the first recorded use of this word was...
by Jennifer Porter | Dec 19, 2024 | News
To Nog, or Not to Nog 🍪🥛 (Episode 008) December 2024 Lost in Multiversal Translation Oscillate: The dictionary would have us believe that it’s derived from the Latin oscillum (small mouth or small face) which referred to small masks hung from pine trees,...
