98: Origin Uncertain (with Anatoly Liberman)

98: Origin Uncertain (with Anatoly Liberman)

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 Not" game a good way of approaching word history?

We're talking to Dr Anatoly Liberman, perhaps the world's preëminent living etymologist and the author of Origin Uncertain: Unraveling the Mysteries of Etymology.

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49: Mailbag - It's That T Again (with Mignon Fogarty)

49: Mailbag - It's That T Again (with Mignon Fogarty)

Lingcomm legend Mignon Fogarty (Grammar Girl) joins us to answer all the questions in our Mailbag! And we have to ask her about National Grammar Day. How do we bring out descriptive grammar, and tone ...

23 Maalis 20221h 11min

48: The Black Side of the River (with Jessi Grieser)

48: The Black Side of the River (with Jessi Grieser)

Anacostia is a rapidly gentrifying suburb in Washington DC, and as Anacostia changes, so does the language. How do the original Black residents use language to establish their cred? What about the lan...

4 Maalis 20221h 32min

47: We Need to Talk About Grice (with Rikker Dockum)

47: We Need to Talk About Grice (with Rikker Dockum)

Every Linguistics 101 student knows about HP Grice and his famous Maxims. They state that dialogue is usually cooperative — and when it doesn't appear to be, they explain how we manage to work out mea...

20 Helmi 20221h 13min

46: Just Words (with Rebecca Shapiro)

46: Just Words (with Rebecca Shapiro)

Can dictionaries create a more fair world? One language observer sees that dictionaries, far from being a neutral chronicle of language, are capable of promoting social justice. Daniel speaks with Dr ...

10 Helmi 20221h 35min

45: Mailbag of Words

45: Mailbag of Words

The Words of the Year are out! And we're talking about 'em. We're answering all the questions in our voluminous Mailbag. We have here, there, and where. We also have that and what. Was there ever a h...

29 Tammi 20221h 19min

44: Words of the Week of the Year 2021 (with Lauren Gawne)

44: Words of the Week of the Year 2021 (with Lauren Gawne)

Our listeners have voted, and here are all the words! Which were our top Words of the Week? Which were the worst? And what did all the dictionary people pick? We're joined by our very special guest (a...

22 Joulu 20211h 23min

43: Journal Club: Zoomies on Zoom (with Hadas Kotek and friends)

43: Journal Club: Zoomies on Zoom (with Hadas Kotek and friends)

Our friends and listeners bring us lots of great stories, questions, and words. So for this episode, we've invited them to present them themselves! All patrons have been invited to join us for this li...

17 Joulu 20211h 22min

42: Replicability Crisis (with Martine Grice and Bodo Winter)

42: Replicability Crisis (with Martine Grice and Bodo Winter)

The sciences are facing a replicability crisis. Some landmark studies were once considered settled, but then failed when they were retested. So have any linguistic experiments been toppled? And how do...

1 Joulu 20211h 34min

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