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2: Mailbag of Iconoclasm

Time to get to this Mailbag! Why are flip-flops called 'thongs'? When people write the date...

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1: Our Favourite Things

For our first episode, we asked some of our linguist and lingo-pod friends what their favourite...

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395: Outed or Misgendered (with Cedar Brown)

"What's your pronoun?" Good question. Many people would like to be more supportive of trans and...

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394: What’s Your Pronoun? (with Dennis Baron)

It's been a big year for singular they, but there's more than one pronoun in town. What...

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393: Push and Pull (Live Q&A)

Are there any pairs of words that you constantly get confused? They're the ones where you have to...

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392: Your Voice (with Jane Setter)

Your voice is your ability to represent your point of view. So which voices are getting...

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391: Words of the Year 2019

It's Word of the Year time, and there are more words than ever before. We bring you the results...

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390: Words of the Week of the Year 2019 (Live Q&A)

Just about every week, we bring you the Words of the Week. Which word from 2019 will listeners...

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389: Mailbag of Pronouns

Again we open the Mailbag and answer our listeners' questions. What do lisps sound like in...

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388: Lies, All Lies (with Georgina Heydon, Heather Wilson, and Amanda Hamilton-Hollaway)

Can you tell when someone is lying? You may think you have a sense about this, but the answers...

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387: The Language of Emotion (with Maïa Ponsonnet)

Language and culture are tightly bound. Or are they? Many speakers of the Australian language...

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386: English Needs These Idioms (Live Q&A)

If you speak a language besides English, you know that there are some idioms that English is...

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385: You Look Like a Thing (with Janelle Shane)

Artificial intelligence is everywhere, and that freaks some people out. But the real problem is...

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384: Mailbag of Welcome

Welcome to our mailbag, where all the really great questions come from. - Why do we say "You're...

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383: Decolonising the Archive (with Emma Murphy and Caroline Hughes)

Communities need language. But a lot of the documentation is locked up in the archives. So now...

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382: There's No Enhance Button (with Helen Fraser)

We hear what we expect to hear. That's a problem in court, where covert audio recordings are...

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381: A Hard Spell (Live Q&A)

What words do you constantly misspell? Are there any that make you stop and think every time you...

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380: Emoji Innovations (Live Q&A)

For this episode, we want to hear about the emoji usages or combinations that are unique to you...

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379: Indigenous Signed Languages (with Rodney Adams and Steph Tisdell)

Indigenous languages matter. They're part of Australia's cultural heritage, and they're a way for...

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378: Bugger All (with Isabelle Burke)

You might do nothing. You might do zilch. But if you do bugger all, you're really doing the...

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