My husband and I have always kept dictionaries (large ones) in our car and our dining room as well as in our home offices and of course where we work. Etymology is one of our favorite hobbies. Over the years, we’ve found some wonderful things (using the American Heritage Dictionary’s Indo-European roots, especially). But we never thought to look up “candidate” or “ambition,” so the origins of these were new and fascinating to us!

I just wanted to tell you how very much we enjoyed this minicast, and hope you continue with them. You could even incorporate one of these in each of the longer podcasts when you go back to doing those.