69: Mailbagussy
The American Dialect Society Word of the Year has been chosen — and it's a wonderful and terrible pick! Depending on who you're talking to. In this episode, we're talking about -USSY and all the words...
27 Tammi 20231h 36min
68: Lazy in a Good Way (with Mark Ellison)
In what was meant to be a casual chat, cognitive scientist Dr Mark Ellison answers galaxy-brain-level questions about how language works. Why aren't we more efficient with language? How do we know wh...
3 Tammi 20231h 22min
67: Words of the Week of the Year 2022 (live with friends)
We're counting down our Words of the Year, as voted by you! We're joined by our friends and patrons, and they've brought us some words we missed. And we'll go through all the Words of the Year from di...
20 Joulu 20221h 44min
66: ChatGPT Wrote This Episode (with Daan van Esch)
ChatGPT has just landed. It can generate text that seems fluid, plausible, and (surprisingly) not total nonsense. It's got a lot of people wondering what's left for humans — and for the field of Natur...
13 Joulu 20221h 26min
65: Naval Manoeuvres (with Chase Dalton)
Many expressions we use come from the nautical domain. But are they nautical? Are they really? We've got Chase Dalton from the US Naval History Podcast to shine a light on some of these expressions, a...
7 Joulu 20221h 27min
64: Struggle Pile (with Kelly Wright)
A chat with Dr Kelly Wright, who's been working on… well, really a lot. Kelly is at the juncture of a lot of areas we're keen on. Oxford's effort to document African-American English? She's been there...
20 Marras 20221h 56min
63: Mailbag of Yeah-No (with Isabelle Burke)
Just two words, but they do so much. But what exactly? Here to answer that question is Dr Isabelle Burke, who has studied yeah-no in depth. She's also going to help us with these Mailbag questions. W...
3 Marras 20221h 27min
62: Language in Spaaaaace (with Hannah Little)
Yes, linguistics is all through the world of sci-fi, but science fiction has had a surprising impact on linguistic research as well. Dr Hannah Little is cataloguing the ways in a new book, and she joi...
22 Loka 20221h 47min
