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30: Mailbag of Raspberries (with Helen Zaltzman)
Our Mailbag is once again full of questions, and podcasting luminary Helen Zaltzman is here to help us answer them!
- Why is the raspberry sound (PBTPBBBBT) not a speech sound in any language? Or is it?
- How can sounds in a language change so much over time?
- Am I BURNED OUT? Or BURNT OUT?
- Why are they called metaphysicians and not metaphysicists?
- What can we call something besides LAME?
- Why is AMPHI- so infrequently used in English?
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By Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård
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Our Mailbag is once again full of questions, and podcasting luminary Helen Zaltzman is here to help us answer them!
- Why is the raspberry sound (PBTPBBBBT) not a speech sound in any language? Or is it?
- How can sounds in a language change so much over time?
- Am I BURNED OUT? Or BURNT OUT?
- Why are they called metaphysicians and not metaphysicists?
- What can we call something besides LAME?
- Why is AMPHI- so infrequently used in English?
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