1: Our Favourite Things
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06/08/20 • 71 min
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For our first episode, we asked some of our linguist and lingo-pod friends what their favourite thing is about language.
We are joined by:
- Ben Zimmer
- Carrie Gillon (The Vocal Fries)
- Ellen Jovin (Grammar Table)
- Grant Barrett (A Way with Words)
- Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne (Lingthusiasm)
- Jane Solomon (The Dictionary of Difficult Words)
- John McWhorter (Lexicon Valley)
- Nicole Holliday (University of Pennsylvania)
- Ryan Paulsen (Lexitecture)
Much gratitude to all our friends for their kind support.
For our first episode, we asked some of our linguist and lingo-pod friends what their favourite thing is about language.
We are joined by:
- Ben Zimmer
- Carrie Gillon (The Vocal Fries)
- Ellen Jovin (Grammar Table)
- Grant Barrett (A Way with Words)
- Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne (Lingthusiasm)
- Jane Solomon (The Dictionary of Difficult Words)
- John McWhorter (Lexicon Valley)
- Nicole Holliday (University of Pennsylvania)
- Ryan Paulsen (Lexitecture)
Much gratitude to all our friends for their kind support.
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2: Mailbag of Iconoclasm
Time to get to this Mailbag!
- Why are flip-flops called 'thongs'?
- When people write the date as '7 April' or 'April 7', do they also say it that way?
- Why do we add 'up' to verbs like 'cut up' or 'eat up'?
- Why do some words have opposite meanings?
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