Dealing with some questions from listeners about pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary, namely how to know when 'd is had or would (in writing and pronunciation), the curious origins of the word podcast and a vocabulary lesson about the word cast including various collocations and phrases which include this morpheme (that means a part of a word, not some kind of shape-shifting alien). More groundbreaking and genre-defying content to grace your earphones, and not boring grammar stuff at all, not even a little bit, no, no way, not here. Get the PDF here https://teacherluke.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Questions-of-English-Listener-Comments-Bits-Bobs-4.pdf Website page https://teacherluke.co.uk/2025/09/01/questions-of-english-listener-comments-bits-bobs-4-951/ Subscribe to LEP Premium for more of this kind of thing https://www.teacherluke.co.uk/premium #learnenglish #podcast #vocabulary #grammar #britishenglish #pronunciation 0:00:00 Introduction 0:06:23 When 'd is "had" or "would" 0:40:01 What is a podcast, really? 0:56:05 Origins of the word "podcast" 1:02:42 Words and phrases with "cast"