A podcast about linguistics, the science of language.
Today, we communicate. But once, we didn’t. What had to happen in our brains to make communication p
Our friends, listeners, and patrons give us so many great stories, news, and words, so for this live
Our listeners and patrons send in so many great ideas, stories, and words. For this episode, listene
Everyone’s favourite tabletop grammarian is back! It’s Ellen Jovin, proprietor of the Grammar Table.
It’s crude. It’s rude. And it’s a lot of fun. Slang has been with us for as long as people didn’t wa
Language titan Tiger Webb is helping us with our voluminous Mailbag. Hedvig is giving her annual Eur
How is language like a game of charades? According to a new book, quite a lot. Charades players and
We had the pleasure of an interview with two up-and-coming linguists, wanting to find out more about
Linguistics is what we all love, but how do we make it pay? Turns out there are more ways than you m
Lingcomm legend Mignon Fogarty (Grammar Girl) joins us to answer all the questions in our Mailbag! A
Anacostia is a rapidly gentrifying suburb in Washington DC, and as Anacostia changes, so does the la
Every Linguistics 101 student knows about HP Grice and his famous Maxims. They state that dialogue i
Can dictionaries create a more fair world? One language observer sees that dictionaries, far from be
The Words of the Year are out! And we’re talking about ’em. We’re answering all the questions in our
Our listeners have voted, and here are all the words! Which were our top Words of the Week? Which we
Our friends and listeners bring us lots of great stories, questions, and words. So for this episode,
The sciences are facing a replicability crisis. Some landmark studies were once considered settled,
Here to help us answer our voluminous Mailbag is the tireless Dr Caitlin Green, Vice Cancellor of Ca
Dialect is a role-playing game about language and how it dies. Over the course of a game, players fo
You probably communicate with your friends using media references all the time. Not that there’s any
