Lessons on Language with the Grammar Girl (Mignon Fogerty)
In this episode, Ray chats with Mignon Fogerty, aka the Grammar Girl. "Good grammar" may seem...
31:44
The Marvels of Translation: Interview with Keith Khan-Harris
What can we learn about the nature of translation by reading a warning message in hundreds of...
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The Power (and Omnipresence) of Rhetoric: Interview with Guy Doza
Rhetoric has a bad reputation. We tend to think of it as a linguistic tool used by polticians and...
56:33
A Defense of "Bad" English: Interview with Valerie Fridland
Instead of criticizing deviations from Standard English as "wrong," what if we celebrated them as...
50:12
Learning New Languages: Interview with Rob Paterson
What goes into building a language learning curriculum? How do designers choose features within a...
33:06
Combatting Bias in Linguistic AI: Interview with Courtney Napoles
As Lead of Language Research at Grammarly, Courtney Napoles is building systems to better help...
30:02
Origins of Place Names: Interview with Duncan Madden
Place names are not random––behind the name of every country is a story of how it came to be....
42:43
Grammatical Gender (Interview with Danny Bate)
In this interview with linguist Danny Bate, we go deep on all things gender––grammatical gender,...
58:58
Trivia refers to obscure or useless information, but this definition is a far cry from the word's...
21:46
African American English: Interview w/ Tracey Weldon
In this episode, I speak with Tracey Weldon, linguist and board advisor on the Oxford Dictionary...
38:54
What does "standing under" have to do with "understanding?" Nothing at all, which is why most of...
19:22
In Old English, the word "world", or weorold, did not refer to a place. It was a compound word...
17:39
Deciphering Ancient Scripts: Interview with Silvia Ferrara
Have you ever wondered how writing was invented - or, how many times it was invented? How many...
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The etymology of "grotesque" is hiding in plain sight: "grotto-esque". Originally, the word was...
16:53
In Ancient Greece, an "idiot", or idiotes, was a "private person", which meant someone who did...
17:57
Though people of extraordinary talents and intellect have always existed, the modern sense of...
25:29
Most Malaysian loanwords in English describe the local flora, fauna, and food of Southeast Asia....
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Episode 102: Hyperbola/Hyperbole & Ellipse/Ellipsis
"Hyperbola" and "ellipse" are geometrical curves, while "hyperbole" and "ellipsis" are rhetorical...
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The meanings of "parabola" and "parable" have very little to do with one another, yet these words...
14:59
Before Google was the name of one of the world's biggest tech companies, "googol" was an obscure...
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