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Episode 117
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Megan and Carrie talk to Erin McCarthy, Editor-in-Chief of Mental Floss, about her new book (with the Mental Floss team), Mental Flo…
3 years, 2 months ago
A Braille as Old as Time
Episode 116
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Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Robert Englebretson, Associate Professor in Linguistics at Rice University, about all things braille.
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3 years, 3 months ago
Like, Literally, Dude
Episode 115
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Megan and Carrie talk with Dr Valerie Fridland about her new book, Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English, how to…
3 years, 4 months ago
Figgy, Gills and Bobby
Episode 114
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Dr. Bob Kennedy is back! Carrie and Megan pick his brain about all things language in sports.
He shoots, he scores!
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3 years, 5 months ago
Don't be an *, be a 🐈
Episode 113
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Megan and Carrie talk with Rachel E. Gross about her book, Vagina Obscura, and the language we use to describe pregnancy, vaginas, ce…
3 years, 6 months ago
The People's Tongue
Episode 112
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Carrie and Megan talk to Dr Ilan Stavans about his new book, The People's Tongue: Americans and the English Language.
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3 years, 7 months ago
The Freeze Peach Paradox
Episode 111
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Megan and Carrie talk to Dr. Dennis Baron, Emeritus Professor of English at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, about his ne…
3 years, 7 months ago
Dr G Squared
Episode 110
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Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Geneva Smitherman/Dr. G about her book My Soul Look Back In Wonder, narrative essays about her race, ge…
3 years, 9 months ago
Bonus WOTY 2022
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Example bonus episode from November 2022.
We talk WOTY22!
Full episode coming soon
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Episode 109
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Megan and Carrie talk with Jonathan "radbwa faroush" Myers and Adrien Guillory-Chatman, members of the first Wikitongues cohort, abo…
3 years, 10 months ago