E762 - Linguistic Ghost Limbs & the Melon Heads of Connecticut

Why do we still dial phones with no dials, roll down windows that don’t roll, and store things in cupboards that hold no cups?

In this episode of The Box of Oddities, Kat and Jethro explore linguistic ghost limbs—words and phrases that outlived the objects they once described. From cupboard, dashboard, and glove box to carbon copy, footage, horsepower, and deadlines, language refuses to let go of the past. These verbal fossils reveal how history lingers in everyday speech through semantic shift, fossilized metaphors, and semantic bleaching.

Then the show heads deep into New...