What do you consider a primary color?

Why do companies have different names for the same color?

Crossword puzzles used to be controversial?

How Calepino came up with the name "dictionary," with Peter Sokolowski

Why "mini" is related to the word "red," with Jess Zafarris

Why do Oceanic languages have lots of words for smells?

What's the most beautiful game? Soccer or Scrabble?

Linguistic regions around the country, with Joan Hall

How to conduct a good interview (for linguistics), with Sali Tagliamonte

How a linguist studies the language of ChatGPT

It's not just kids who use "like" for "said." #podcast #linguistics #englishdialect

What was Orwell's newspeak?

People used 'roar' to mean 'shout' in text (with Glenn Fleishman)

Glenn Fleishman talks about searching for the early origin of all caps to depict shouting

Two weeks' notice or two week's notice? Where does the apostrophe go?

How AI differs from other computer programs, with Sean Goedecke

Why AI uses the same names for people, with Sean Goedecke

How to highlight words used as words

Can you make a living by writing a book? with Jane Friedman

What does SOS stand for, with Jess Zafarris

How to pronounce potable

Why you say you're cooking 'from scratch'

Are the Pennsylvania Dutch really Dutch?

Can AI do the job of etymologists?

Making the Online Etymology Dictionary, with Doug Harper

How Samuel Johnson rebuked a noble who tried to take credit for helping him

What's in the Samual Johnson collection at Harvard, with John Overholt

Why Samuel Johnson hated Americans, with John Overholt

Was it rage bait to make 6-7 the word of the year?

How AI slop gives us, slopaganda, slopographers, sloportunists, and sloptimism

Alliteration just feels good, with Doug Fraser

Why Mark Twain didn't like long words — it had to do with money

The word that made it into the dictionary in just 34 days, with Stefan Fatsis

How the linotype got its name. 🤣

The concept of a teenager comes from the way we make the "teen" word in English

How Martha Barnette's mentor made her see language in a whole new way. #podcast

Do people have different personalities when they speak different languages? #podcast #linguistics

What is received pronunciation in British English?

How print dictionaries are better than online dictionaries, with Peter Sokolowski

What the new print Merriam-Webster dictionary actually LOOKS like, with Peter Sokolowski

Insider info on crossword puzzles, with Natan Last #podcast

The crossword memorabilia hiding in Will Shortz's basement, with Natan Last

Why 'Science' writers did a study of AI writing, with Abigail Eisenstadt

A man discovered his ancestor was the first 'scalawag,' with Ben Zimmer

The word 'jazz' comes from ... baseball, with Ben Zimmer

How new freelancer writers can start prospecting, with Suzanne Bowness

How to think of pitching so it doesn't feel icky, with Suzanne Bowness

How printers gave us the idea of uppercase and lowercase letters, with Danny Bate