35: Something's Got to Change (with Lesley Woods and Alice Gaby)

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 Feb 20221h 35min

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 Jan 20221h 19min

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 Des 20211h 23min

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 Des 20211h 22min

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 Des 20211h 34min

Here to help us answer our voluminous Mailbag is the tireless Dr Caitlin Green, Vice Cancellor of Caitlin University. Among our questions: NON-BINARY or NONBINARY? What's behind coffee names? Why is ...

16 Nov 20211h 14min

Dialect is a role-playing game about language and how it dies. Over the course of a game, players form an isolated community, create a private language, and watch it fade away as the community's isola...

15 Nov 20212h 56min

You probably communicate with your friends using media references all the time. Not that there's anything wrong with that. But why do we include media references, when we could just talk? Turns out it...

1 Nov 20211h 41min