Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share 256: Numbers
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
256: Numbers
One, two, three… Sounds simple, doesn't it? And yet different languages express numbers in very different ways. How are they handled in our brains? And how did -illion get to be the suffix for truly astronomical sums? Linguist Daniel Midgley runs the numbers on this episode of Talk the Talk.
View all episodes
By Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård
4.7
115115 ratings
One, two, three… Sounds simple, doesn't it? And yet different languages express numbers in very different ways. How are they handled in our brains? And how did -illion get to be the suffix for truly astronomical sums? Linguist Daniel Midgley runs the numbers on this episode of Talk the Talk.
More shows like Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.
View all
On the Media
9,069 Listeners
A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over
2,229 Listeners
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
2,819 Listeners
This American Life
90,826 Listeners
99% Invisible
26,152 Listeners
The History of English Podcast
6,312 Listeners
Intelligence Squared
778 Listeners
Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics
630 Listeners
In Defense of Plants Podcast
1,212 Listeners
Ologies with Alie Ward
23,441 Listeners
Throughline
15,872 Listeners
Short Wave
6,234 Listeners
Linguistics After Dark
28 Listeners
Overthink
372 Listeners
Lexicon Valley from Booksmart Studios
540 Listeners