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…
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…
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…
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…
The Words of the Year are out! And we’re talking about ’em. We’re answering all the questions in our voluminous Mailbag. And Hedvig springs a…
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…
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…
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…
Here to help us answer our voluminous Mailbag is the tireless Dr Caitlin Green, Vice Cancellor of Caitlin University. Among our questions: Listen to this…
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…