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Jay & Ray explore the etymology of phrases and terms related to theater and literature.

Episode 310: Jay & Ray take a thunderous approach to old etymologies. steal your thunderwhy is Macbeth referred to as 'The Scottish Play?'Subscribe, review, and come find us on BlueSky, Insta, & FB. Big Science Music is an award-winning original music and sound boutique. Providing scoring, sound design, radio, podcast, and all audio-post production services for the advertising, film, and video industries. Grab a taste of the groove salad at bigsciencemusic.com some of the W9Y s...

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Hosts: Jay, Ray

Topics covered

• etymology
• language
• theater
• literature
• idioms

Keywords

• etymology
• Macbeth
• Scottish Play
• idioms
• language

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