Episode 124a: Season 10 Trailer
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Episode 123: Words Christmas Gave Us, with Grace Tierney
Grace Tierney is back with another great book about the word origins, this time “Words Christmas Gave Us"! She regales us with festive stori...
Episode 122: Says Who, with Anne Curzan
We spoke with Dr. Anne Curzan about her new book, “Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares about Words”. We talk about...
Episode 121: The Vesuvius Challenge, with Stephen Parsons
Buried deep under volcanic ash lie hundreds of burnt scrolls containing texts from the first century. A new project is driving the work to t...
Episode 120: Swimming in History, with Karen Carr
We talked to Dr. Karen Carr about the global history of swimming — in myth, folktale, and history. Who swam, who didn’t, and how do the stor...
Episode 119: An Ecological Chain
We discuss the language and history of the ecological sciences, all the way back to the ancient Greeks, and the development of the food chai...
Episode 118: A Crisis of Masculinity, with Melanie Racette-Campbell
We talk to Melanie Racette-Campbell about her new book, “The Crisis of Masculinity in the Age of Augustus”, and discuss why Roman elite men...
Episode 117: A Brief History of Misogyny
The word “chauvinism” is an unlikely eponym, but it turns out that the story behind it has all sorts of interesting connections. And our dis...
Episode 116: A Quiverful of Time Arrows
We look at the history of English’s conceptualization of time, and update Mark’s research on spatiotemporal metaphor. Also, words for arrows...
Episode 115: Like, Literally, Dude! with Valerie Fridland
We spoke to Dr. Valerie Fridland about her new book, “Like, Literally, Dude!” and talked about the fascinating role that many ‘errors’ in En...
Episode 114a: The XYZ’s of Spelling
It’s Part 2 of our mega-episode on spelling! This time, we get into some of the notorious mismatches between English spelling and modern Eng...
Episode 114: The ABC’s of Spelling
We’re wading into the messy world of English spelling in this episode — the first of two, since we couldn’t fit all of the ‘quirks’ of the l...
Bonus: Livestream Q&A from LingFest23
In this bonus episode, we answer questions from viewers and listeners during a livestream on our YouTube channel, as part of #LingFest23. Ap...
Announcement: LingFest23 Q&A Livestream
Just a reminder that we’ll be doing a Q&A livestream on our YouTube channel as part of LingFest in connection to the LingComm23 Conference o...
Episode 113: Ovid's Metamorphoses in the 21st Century
In this episode we talk to the authors of two new books on Ovid’s Metamorphoses , the Latin epic poem he wrote in 8 CE. Stephanie McCarter h...
Episode 112: The Bellini, Art, and Patronage
As we get ready to mark the new year, it seems a good time to talk about a classic cocktail made with sparkling wine: the Bellini. Our conve...
Episode 111: Haggard Hawks, back again!
We welcome back Paul Anthony Jones, of Haggard Hawks fame, to ell us about his new book “Why Is This a Question?”. We talk about how his exp...
Episode 110: Music and Language
We talk about the origins of music, its connection (both etymological and scientific) with the mind, how language is used to describe and te...
Episode 109: Endangered Alphabets, with Tim Brookes
We spoke with Tim Brooks of the Endangered Alphabets project about the cultural importance of scripts, the pressures on marginalized and iso...
Episode 108: Widows, Indian Independence, and Partition
Commemorating the 6th anniversary of the death of Mark’s father, and the 75th anniversary of Indian independence, this episode connects wido...
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