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…
In what was meant to be a casual chat, cognitive scientist Dr Mark Ellison answers galaxy-brain-level questions about how language works. Fortunately, he helps us…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Yes, linguistics is all through the world of sci-fi, but science fiction has had a surprising impact on linguistic research. Dr Hannah Little is cataloguing…
It’s Ben, Hedvig, and Daniel all together in the same place for the first time. We’re talking about the state of the show, the state…
Language isn’t just for communication — it’s fun. For over a hundred years, crosswords have served as entertainment, and even been blamed for society’s ills.…