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How To! Sleep Apart to Save Your Relationship

Sleep is objectively worse when splitting a bed. Yet that’s the default for most couples. But that doesn’t mean sharing the covers is easy. Especially when one person is having trouble falling or stay

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Learning Yiddish

Michael Rosen is learning Yiddish. Every Sunday, he joins other adults in an evening class, conjugating verbs and practising rhymes.For this episode of Word of Mouth, he invites his teacher, Tamara Mi

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Hear Me Out: You Need To Care About Meghan Markle

On today’s episode of Hear Me Out… royal pains.The British Royals are far from the imperial power they once were. Whether you love the institution, hate it, or simply don’t care, it’s hard to deny tha

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High Jinks - 10 July 2023

For many people, religion provides language and rituals for key milestones in life, from births to weddings to funerals. But what if you don’t ascribe to any particular religion? What words do you use

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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 different languages? In this episode, Keith Kahn-Harris discusses his latest book, The Babel Message, in w

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What Next: Beyond Biden vs. Trump

America’s electoral system casts third-party candidates as spoilers—but what would it take to open the door to not just a third party, but a fourth or more?Guest: Lee Drutman, senior f

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Hear Me Out: Insurrection Is A Force For Good

On today’s episode of Hear Me Out… don’t you know they’re talking bout a 4th celebrates one of the least bloody milestones of the American Revolution. But we have a complicated relatio

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Hang Up and Listen: The Sports Culture Power Rankings

Josh Levin and Stefan Fatsis are joined by TV producer Mike Schur for a special episode: a debate on which sports have generated the best art and made the greatest contributions to culture. Topics dis

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Oh For Cute (Rebroadcast) - 3 July 2023

A stereotype is a preconceived notion about a person or group. Originally, though, the word stereotype referred to a printing device used to produce lots of identical copies. • The link between tiny m

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On Rasharnian (from Immortals of Aveum)

George has obtained information on the conlang Rasharnian created for Immortals of Aveum. This is a critique of that language as well as a discussion of issues surrounding it that were brought up in t

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78: Forensic Linguistics, Really (with Helen Fraser, Georgina Heydon, Diana Eades, Seán Rob

For decades, forensic linguists have been pushing back on harmful language ideologies, and fighting for better representation for linguistic minorities in the legal domain. We're talking to three lege

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Hear Me Out: Patriarchy Hurts All Of Us — Including Men

On today’s episode of Hear Me Out… gendering, everywhere, all at once.In the final days of Pride Month, we wanted to turn our attention to another complicated and contentious facet of the LGBT+ dialog

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Coinkydink (Rebroadcast) - 26 June 2023

Sometimes it’s a challenge to give a book a chance: How many pages should you read before deciding it’s not worth your time? There’s a new formula to help with that decision — and it’s all based on yo

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178. Uranus

Have you ever wondered why the planets in our solar system are all named after Roman deities, except two of them?One of those exceptions is Earth. The other is Uranus.Content note: there are mentions

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Instrumental, masse, med brask og bram

Kan Erling Braut Haaland omtales som instrumental? Hva er forskjellen på mange, mye og masse? Og hvor kommer uttrykket med brask og bram fra? I panelet: Ellen Andenæs, Jan Kristian Hognestad og Leiv I

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Hear Me Out: Descendants Of Slaves Don’t Need Reparations

On today’s episode of Hear Me Out…an archaeology of grievances.In honor of the third Juneteenth being celebrated as a national holiday, it’s worth unpacking symbolic gestures like Juneteenth — and, as

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Spinning Cookies - 19 June 2023

A book of photographs and essays by famous writers celebrates libraries--and the librarians who changed their lives. Plus cutting doughnuts, spinning cookies, and pulling brodies: There are lots of wa

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Tasjlat, sikkert og forsømme seg

har en eksotisk lyd, som også finnes i språk fra Ringenes herre. Hva er betydningen av å forsømme seg, og kan ulik tolkning føre til uvennskap? Det er ikke sikkert at alt er like sikk

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81: The verbs had been being helped by auxiliaries

In the sentence “the horse has eaten an apple”, what is the word “has” doing? It’s not expressing ownership of something, like in “the horse has an apple”. (After all, the horse could have very sneaki

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77: Big Tent (live with Aris Clemons, Caitlin Green, Rikker Dockum, and friends)

How do we make the discipline of linguistics — and our world — a more just, diverse, and equitable place? Why does our personal history and personal perspective matter when doing science? How do we bu

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Hear Me Out: A Little Racism Can Be A Good Thing

On today’s episode of Hear Me Out… Racism Lite.Racial politics is responsible for a lot of ugliness, in the United States and around the world. Humans want, and even need, to sort themselves into cate

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What Next: The Liberal Case Against Affirmative Action

If the Supreme Court rules against affirmative action for certain racial groups, as expected, how will colleges and other institutions create diverse student bodies and address racial

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Up Your Alley (Rebroadcast) - 12 June 2023

Martha and Grant have book including a collection of short stories inspired by dictionaries, and a for teens. Or, how about novels with an upbeat message? Publishers c

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Gay Animals

This is the in which I, Helen Zaltzman, say a load of words which aren’t really about anything, so that your brain gets a little gentle diversion from thinking and/or feeling. Today

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Mast, Knullskardet og en whisky

Er mast en bøyingsform av å miste? Fantes småfrekke stedsnavn som Knullskardet også i gamle dager? Hvorfor tar man en øl eller en whisky, mens vi drikker et glass vin?I panelet: Klara Sjo, Ragnhild Ei

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Hear Me Out: Corporate Pride is Tacky, Pointless and

On today’s episode of Hear Me Out… these gays are trying to murder my neutral palate.Pride Month festivities come at a time this year when LGBT+ rights are under attack across the country. Brands like

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Just Skylarking - 5 June 2023

The art of the invitation can be tricky. If you want someone to join your group on an outing, it's important to state it clearly. Otherwise, the invitee may wonder whether to stay home or come along f

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Klarifisere og levere, på død og liv

På død og liv eller på liv og død, spiller det noen rolle hva du sier ? Er det vanlig å engelske ord, som klarifisere? Når skal folk slutte å skrive 'levere' i hytt og pine? I panelet

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Hear Me Out: “Thank You For Your Service” Feels Cheap

On today’s episode of Hear Me Out… empty Day is meant to commemorate those who lost their lives in serving this country. Around such a heavy day — and on many others — the common refra

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Piping Hot (Rebroadcast) - 29 May 2023

The game of baseball has always inspired colorful commentary. Sometimes that means using familiar words in unfamiliar ways. The word stuff, for example, can refer to a pitcher's repertoire, or to th

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76: Ooo! Yum! Uh… (with Emily Hofstetter, Eleonora Beier, and Russell Gray)

Why does everyone say OOO! when they see someone fall down? Why do we say YUM when we feed a baby? And what's the deal with fillers like UM? For this episode we're talking about non-lexical vocalisati

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David and Jessie Talk Kopikon

On today’s episode of Hear Me Out… royal pains.The British Royals are far from the imperial power they once were. Whether you love the institution, hate it, or simply don’t care, it’s hard to deny tha3