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Language is a lot like love. You can enjoyably lose yourself in both. They can both be dangerous. And they both entail a responsibility to keep each o...
What one thing explains the most about language? Here to answer that question is linguist and friend of the pod Dr Mark Ellison — and many of our li...
For our 500th episode, we got together with our great listeners for their words, stories, and inspiration. It's a look back at the show, a look at lan...
Can you hear them? Only if you're meant to. Political dogwhistles exploit lack of knowledge in one group to send a coded message to another group. But...
There are lots of Englishes out there, but the way we approach varieties of English sets learners up to fail. How do we combat language ideologies out...
What do signed languages have in common? How do oral languages influence signed languages? How do they influence each other? Here to answer these ques...
Noam Chomsky is one of the world's foremost thinkers, and his impact on linguistics is incalculable. Yet many people are only familiar with his politi...
A hundred episodes already? To celebrate, we're doing our favourite kind of episode: a Mailbag. Why is it a BLOW JOB when there's no blowing? Why J...
What's going on in Germany? How are people talking about gender in the German language, and how is freedom of expression being handled? We have a coup...
How much can we really know about the words we use? What are the facts behind some of the most tangled etymologies in English? And is our "Related or ...
What's the difference between a KINK and a FETISH? Does it matter if you ASSUME or PRESUME? English is full of these close groups of words, and author...
New York City is home to a lot of languages! Sometimes a sizeable language community can live on just a couple of floors of an apartment building. Dr ...
Language authorities. Right-wing politicians. White supremacists and feminists. What do they have in common? They're all working together to fight gen...
Dr Kelly Wright is helping us understand the link between public health and language maintenance. And she's helping us with our voluminous Mailbag! ...
In honour of Grammar Day (4 March), we are joined live by special guest Ellen Jovin, who regularly dispenses grammar advice and wisdom from the Gramma...
What are your eyes doing when you describe a scene? It may depend on your language. New research from Dr Rachel Nordlinger and team shows that we d...
We're climbing back into the linguistic time machine and taking a look at language in the long view. We'll find out what language was like 100,000 ...
We're talking words, and no one has a way with words like Grant Barrett. He's here to tell us what it's like at Dictionary.com, and what went down at ...
The public has voted, and a winner has been decided! We're looking all the words chosen by the various dictionary bodies, and counting down our Words ...
What was language like a year ago? Ten years ago? A hundred? What about before that? We're climbing into the Linguistic Time Machine and finding out...
What is a woman? Or a man? Or a chair, or a sandwich? Or anything, really? "Gender critical" people are making language into a vector to attack the ...
We've got mail, and linguistic MVP Dr Nicole Holliday is here to help us sort some things out around here. And we chat about the state of lingcomm tod...
Who wrote the Oxford English Dictionary? Sure, James Murray had a very important role as editor, but a small army of volunteers submitted hundreds of ...
What's happening with signed language in Argentina? How are terms for gender changing in the Spanish language? And are Zoomers making work language mo...
Our accents are great! They represent our origins, our languages, our community, and our identity. But too many of us feel like we can't speak with ou...
Our patrons are joining us live to give us their news, words, and stories. That's right, it's a Potluck episode! What's a "girl dinner"? What's the ot...
Women's bodies, women's occupations, women's experiences. So often in history, the discourse about women has been by men, about women. And that means ...
Listeners have once again sent us some great questions, and we have answers! Why do we TALK SHIT and not SPEAK SHIT? Do we KEEP OUT, or STAY OUT? ...
Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård
For decades, forensic linguists have been pushing back on harmful language ideologies, and fighting for better representation for linguistic minoritie...
