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Welcome to episode 77 of Lexis in which Raj & Dan talk to Lynne Murphy, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sussex about a flurry of recent news stories about children’s adoption of American vocabulary (and even accents). We discuss:

• What these stories are about and whether we can even tell if this 'Americanisation' is happening

• The main themes in them and their precursors in previous panics about ‘Americanisation’ 

• The discourses within and behind these stories

• What motivates them and how to approach them critically 

• How British English is also making its way into American English

Lynne is author of ‘The Prodigal Tongue: the Love–Hate Relationship between British and American English’ , and the Separated by a Common Language blog. 

You can also find her on Bluesky and other social media platforms under the name Lynneguist.

Bluesky here: https://bsky.app/profile/lynneguist.bsky.social 

The stories we discuss are here:

The Times and Sunday Times feature itself: http://archive.today/9UM7W 

‘Trash-talking children are sounding like Americans, say teachers

Garbage, candy and apartment are Americanisms that are growing more popular among younger pupils’

Kristina Murkett’s op-ed for The Telegraph, 

‘The Americanisation of British English reveals this dark thing about our society

Many parents are happy to allow their children consume videos made by companies that have no obligation to care for them’

http://archive.today/cZ4kF 

The Telegraph article links to this absolute stinker of a piece by Simon Heffer from 2024 too, ‘Americanisms are poisoning our language’

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/americanism-english-language-simon-heffer/   

A more sensible take from Charlotte Crips in The Independent, ‘Mom, can we take the elevator?’ Why I’m fine with my daughter speaking Americanese’

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/americanism-english-children-b2857680.html 

But some quite mixed responses to that piece from their readers: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/americanisms-english-language-british-b2859043.html 

We mention Ben Yagoda’s book, Gobsmacked https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/gobsmacked-the-british-invasion-of-american-english-ben-yagoda/7669284?ean=9780691262291&next=t  and the Guardian featured an extract from it here: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/sep/26/other-british-invasion-how-uk-language-conquered-the-us 

A new one (possibly the worst of the lot) was published in The Spectator between recording the episode and publishing it. You can read the archived version here: https://archive.ph/2025.11.24-063603/https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-to-save-the-kings-english/ 

And we’ve been here before, obviously…

Matthew Engel: 

‘Say no to the get-go! Americanisms swamping English, so wake up and smell the coffee’ (here, along with some teacher resources and student responses that Jacky and I put together years ago and the actual article: https://filestore.aqa.org.uk/resources/english/AQA-ALEVEL-ENG-HUB-SPR19-PAPER2-BOOKLET.PDF ) 

Mark Liberman’s response to Engel on Language Log in 2011: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3290 

Lexis is on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/lexispodcast.bsky.social 

Contributors

Lisa Casey 

blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)

Dan Clayton 

blog: EngLangBlog & Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social 

Jacky Glancey 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey

Raj Rana

Matthew Butler 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA 

Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys 

Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys 

Welcome to episode 76 of Lexis which features Raj & Dan (and guest interviewer & friend of the pod, Amanda Cole) talking about gender and exclamation marks in digital communication with Yidan (Dani) Yin, Assistant Professor in the Department of Management and Organization at the Smeal College of Business, Penn State University and Dr Cheryl Wakslak, Associate Professor of Management and Organization at USC Marshall.

Their JESP (Journal of Experimental Social Psychology) paper (with Gil Appel): Nice to meet you.(!) Gendered norms in punctuation usage can be found here and is a fascinating read:  https://www.researchgate.net/publication/397148363_Nice_to_meet_you_Gendered_norms_in_punctuation_usage 

We pick up on some of the media coverage of their paper and also reference Deborah Cameron’s blog about the paper and its coverage. 

Financial Times coverage: https://archive.ph/cCOiL 

The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/oct/28/exclamation-marks-why-do-women-use-them-three-times-as-much-as-men 

London Evening Standard: https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/exclamation-marks-female-gender-norms-punctuation-b1255212.html 

Harvard Business Review: https://hbr.org/2025/09/dont-overthink-your-use-of-exclamation-points 

Deborah Cameron’s blog: https://debuk.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/enough-already-punctuation-silly-women-and-soundbite-science/ 

We also mention Gretchen McCulloch’s thoughts on the full-stop: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49182824 

Dani Yin: https://sites.google.com/view/yidan-yin 

Cheryl Wakslak: https://www.marshall.usc.edu/personnel/cheryl-jan-wakslak 

And then in our Lang in the News segment, Lisa, Jacky and Dan discuss more media tales of the woes of inclusive language and discuss some of these stories: 

‘Man the phones’ is offensive, insurers told

Trade body accused of ‘pandering to woke dogma’ after issuing language guide advising against use of everyday terms

http://archive.today/dLoSb 

Health trust breached equality commitments over gender neutral language

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9wvrl084g7o 

Lexis is on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/lexispodcast.bsky.social 

Contributors

Lisa Casey 

blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)

Dan Clayton 

blog: EngLangBlog & Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social 

Jacky Glancey 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey

Raj Rana

Matthew Butler 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA 

Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys 

Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys 

Welcome back to Lexis. This is episode 75 and it’s a bumper edition. We pick up on a recent survey of teachers by Teacher Tapp about teachers’ accents and run with it…

We talk to teacher, Arun Sharma about his experiences, we interview Alex Baratta, Amanda Cole and Rob Drummond and we discuss the survey results in more detail and cover some other stories about accents in the news. 

Teacher Tapp’s blog about this: https://teachertapp.com/articles/how-teachers-feel-about-their-accents/ 

Teacher Tapp: https://teachertapp.com/ 

The stories we discuss in Lang in the News:

http://archive.today/2025.09.23-223722/https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/sex-relationships/article/it-only-took-a-term-at-oxford-for-my-grimsby-accent-to-go-posh-z52g9pqfh 

https://archive.ph/2025.10.05-173953/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/science/article/why-actors-are-ditching-queens-english-for-their-old-regional-accents-rtr29rcdt 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyv638r2dglo?app-referrer=deep-link

Lexis is on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/lexispodcast.bsky.social 

Contributors

Lisa Casey 

blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)

Dan Clayton 

blog: EngLangBlog & Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social 

Jacky Glancey 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey

Raj Rana

Matthew Butler 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA 

Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys 

Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys 

Welcome to Episode 74 of Lexis. Jacky and Dan talk to Dr Laura Smith-Khan, Senior Lecturer - School of Law, University of New England, Australia about…

• How she got into the linguistics of law

• Where and how law and language overlap

• Clarity, accuracy and the power dynamics in legal language

• Migration, borders, refugees and the law

• Assessing ‘credibility’ and some of the processes of refugee law

• Critically assessing media discourses around migration

Laura Smith-Khan’s university profile: https://www.une.edu.au/staff-profiles/law/Dr-Laura-Smith-Khan_Profile

Laura is part of the Law and Linguistics Interdisciplinary Research Network - more here: Law and Language – Sharing research, news and events related to law and language

as well as the Language on the Move research group - blog and podcast https://www.languageonthemove.com/author/laura/ 

Some of the studies and research mentioned in the show:

Legal literacy in a linguistically diverse society – Language on the Move 

Learning to speak like a lawyer – Language on the Move

Trust and suspicion at the airport – Language on the Move

Refugee credibility assessment and the vanishing interpreter – Language on the Move

The post we discussed about judges, clarity and distance: How Judges Think About Language – Language on the Move

The Bluey episode mentioned is Bluey Season 3, Episode 49 | The Sign and the episode’s impact on people looking up road rules received attention from the QLD government and the media, eg What are the rules around children sitting in the front seat of a car? And is it safe? - ABC News

Reading Challenges with lists of recommended books (2025 has yearly links back to 2018):

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2025 – Language on the Move

Category – Language on the Move (posts organized by topic)

Authors – Language on the Move (full list of contributors, each with a short bio and link to posts)

Lexis is on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/lexispodcast.bsky.social 

Contributors

Lisa Casey 

blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)

Dan Clayton 

blog: EngLangBlog & Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social 

Jacky Glancey 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey

Raj Rana

Matthew Butler 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA 

Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys 

Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys

Welcome to Episode 73 of Lexis. Dan talks to Sam Hellmuth, Catherine Laing, Lauren Harrington and Salina Cuddy about the forthcoming York English Language Toolkit event for A Level English Language teachers. 

You can sign up here: 

https://englishlanguagetoolkit.york.ac.uk/workshops 

Previous workshops and case studies are here: 

https://englishlanguagetoolkit.york.ac.uk/case-studies 

Lexis is on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/lexispodcast.bsky.social 

Contributors

Lisa Casey 

blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)

Dan Clayton 

blog: EngLangBlog & Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social 

Jacky Glancey 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey

Raj Rana

Matthew Butler 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA 

Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys 

Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys

Welcome to Episode 72 of Lexis. Raj and Dan talk to Professor Karrin Vasby Anderson, Department of Communication Studies, Colorado State University, USA about:

• Communication studies - what kinds of communication are studied and how

• Power and politics

• Toxic masculinity & Trump

• Gender and politics

• The ‘double-bind’ for women in politics

• The Presidential debates of 2016 and 2024

• Language, demagoguery & healthy democracies. 

Karrin’s University of Colorado page: https://www.libarts.colostate.edu/people/karrin/ 

The article in The Conversation about Trump and Zelenskyy that we discuss: https://theconversation.com/how-trumps-compulsion-to-dominate-sabotages-dealmaking-undermines-democracy-and-threatens-global-stability-251210 

Some of the other articles that Karrin has written that we would recommend: 

https://theconversation.com/americas-dad-vs-the-manosphere-walz-vance-debate-highlights-two-versions-of-masculinity-240319 

https://theconversation.com/kamala-harris-effectively-baited-donald-trump-during-the-debate-drawing-out-his-insecure-white-masculinity-238850 

https://theconversation.com/biden-crashes-trump-lies-a-campaign-defining-presidential-debate-232672 

‘Toxic femininity’: https://theconversation.com/the-movie-barbie-has-put-the-phrase-toxic-femininity-back-in-the-news-heres-what-it-means-and-why-you-should-care-205884 

Anti-feminist backlash in politics: 

https://theconversation.com/watch-more-tv-to-understand-the-backlash-against-the-women-in-the-running-for-vice-president-143725 

And the book that she recommends: https://theexperimentpublishing.com/catalogs/spring-2020/demagoguery-and-democracy/ 

Lexis is on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/lexispodcast.bsky.social 

Contributors

Lisa Casey 

blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)

Dan Clayton 

blog: EngLangBlog & Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social 

Jacky Glancey 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey

Raj Rana

Matthew Butler 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA 

Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys 

Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys 

Welcome to Episode 71 of Lexis. Lisa, Dan and guest presenter Amanda Cole talk to Professor Mercedes Durham, from the Centre for Language and Communication, Cardiff University about her work on Welsh English.

We talk about:

• The Leverhulme Trust project "Sociolinguistic Variation in South East Wales: Change and Contact"

• What makes Welsh English distinctive

• Varieties of Welsh English and how they’ve come to be

• Attitudes to Welsh English accents

• The power of Gavin and Stacey

• Charlotte from The Traitors

• The Speak For Yersel project that links Welsh English to other varieties around the UK and Ireland

Mercedes Durham’s Cardiff University profile page: https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/durhamm 

Some of the coverage of the ongoing work: https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/2684264-whats-occurin-dialects-in-barry,-caerphilly-and-pontypridd-subject-of-academic-study 

Welsh accents: Is commuting changing how people speak? - BBC News

Wenglish: Experts research how the English language is used in day-to-day life in Wales 

The Traitors: how trustworthy is a Welsh accent? A sociolinguist explains

Welsh language: Is mixing with English causing 'erosion'? - BBC News   

The Speak For Yersel pages:

https://speakforyersel.ac.uk/wales/ 

University of Glasgow - Colleges - College of Arts & Humanities - About Us - College of Arts & Humanities news - Your voice needed as language survey expands to Ireland and Wales 

Mercedes’ favourite book about language: https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/language-and-gender-a-reader-2e-j-coates/3651256?ean=9781405191272 

Lexis is on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/lexispodcast.bsky.social 

Contributors

Lisa Casey 

blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)

Dan Clayton 

blog: EngLangBlog & Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social 

Jacky Glancey 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey

Raj Rana

Matthew Butler 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA 

Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys 

Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys

Welcome to Episode 70 of Lexis. Raj and Dan talk to Dr Emma Humphries, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, School of Arts, English and Languages, Queen’s University Belfast about all things prescriptivism. 

We talk about:

• What prescriptivism is and how it can de defined

• Prescriptivism in French and English and the role of the Academy

• The Your Wrong project that Emma is working on

• Prescriptivism in popular culture and traditional guides, manuals and grammars

• Why prescriptivism and descriptivism are not locked in a war and why it’s more than a goodies vs baddies, left vs right binary

• The kinds of arguments prescriptivists put forward

• Why complaints about language are often - but not always - proxies for complaints about people

• How to convert a prescriptivist

• How to get involved in the Your Wrong project

Your Wrong website: https://yourwrong.co.uk/ 

Submit your examples: https://yourwrong.co.uk/submit 

Contact Emma: [email protected] 

Emma’s Queen’s University page: https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/emma-humphries

Emma’s favourite book about language: https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/language-myths-laurie-bauer/762943?ean=9780140260236 

Lexis is on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/lexispodcast.bsky.social 

Contributors

Lisa Casey 

blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)

Dan Clayton 

blog: EngLangBlog & Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social 

Jacky Glancey 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey

Raj Rana

Matthew Butler 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA 

Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys 

Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys 

Welcome to Episode 69 of Lexis. Dan is joined by guest interviewer Amanda Cole for this episode as we talk to Dr Natalie Braber, Professor in linguistics at Nottingham Trent University and Alice Paver, Research Assistant at the Phonetics Laboratory, University of Cambridge about their new paper, ‘Stereotyped accent judgements in forensic contexts: listener perceptions of social traits and types of behaviour’. 

We talk about:

• Previous accent attitude research

• What makes their research different and more expansive

• Criminality and morality in relation to accent attitudes 

• The rise (and fall) of Brummie 😕

• The real world, legal implications of accent prejudice

• What happens in a voice parade

⚠️As part of the discussion, we touch on issues of criminality, including sexual assault⚠️

Alice Paver’s profile page:

https://www.phonetics.mmll.cam.ac.uk/staff/alice-paver 

Natalie Braber’s profile page: https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/arts-humanities/natalie-braber 

Their paper (with David Wright and Nikolas Pautz): 

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/communication/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1462013/full 

Some of the media coverage: 

The Traitors: Why Charlotte’s fake Welsh accent could be a stroke of genius | The Independent

Cambridge study raises concern about regional accents stereotypes - BBC News 

People with working-class accents more likely to be suspected of committing crimes | UK criminal justice | The Guardian 

UK's hierarchy of accents: 'I thought mine made me sound stupid' - BBC News  

Jorja Smith puts hometown accent on map 

Lexis is on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/lexispodcast.bsky.social 

Contributors

Lisa Casey 

blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)

Dan Clayton 

blog: EngLangBlog & Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social 

Jacky Glancey 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey

Raj Rana

Matthew Butler 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA 

Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys 

Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys 

Show notes for Episode 68

Here are the show notes for Episode 68, in which Lisa, Jacky, Raj and Dan talk to lexicographer extraordinaire, connoisseur of coinages and expert slangster, Tony Thorne,Language consultant at King’s College London, about the words of 2024, those on his radar for 2025 and what new words tell us (or don’t) about the world we live in today.  

We talk about:

• The WOTY lists of 2024

• Why WOTY generates interest and column inches

• What didn’t make the cut

• What’s driving lexical change

• Why new words aren’t all about fun and frivolity

• What the words that are bubbling under for 2025 tell us about the year that could be to come

As part of the discussion, we touch on some explicit language and themes of an adult and politically controversial nature. 

Tony’s website:https://language-and-innovation.com/ 

Tony’s 2024 piece for The Conversation:https://theconversation.com/most-words-of-the-year-dont-actually-tell-us-about-the-state-of-the-world-heres-what-id-pick-instead-246190 

And Tony’s 2023 piece:https://theconversation.com/im-an-expert-in-slang-here-are-my-picks-for-word-of-the-year-218286 

We talk about words featured in some of the following articles: 

Collins WOTY brat:https://www.collinsdictionary.com/woty 

Brat, delulu and raw-dogging make Collins dictionary 2024 - can you decode this Gen Z slang? - Mirror Online

Charli XCX's Brat crowned Collins Dictionary word of the year - BBC News

Telegraph on brat:http://archive.today/2024.11.01-074903/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/01/brat-collins-dictionary-charli-xcx-eras/   

The Times on brat:http://archive.today/2024.11.01-004723/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/society/article/collins-word-of-the-year-brat-20m337nhc 

Celebrities make ‘manifest’ appear as 2024 word of the year | Social media | The Guardian 

2024 Word of the Year Is “Rawdog” - American Dialect Society 

How did ‘rawdogging’ become part of polite conversation? | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian 

Dictionary Dot Com WOTYdemure:https://www.dictionary.com/e/word-of-the-year-2024/   

Macquarie WOTYenshittification:https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/nov/26/enshittification-macquarie-dictionary-word-of-the-year-explained 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/arts/brain-rot-oxford-word.html (alternative link:http://archive.today/2024.12.03-205352/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/arts/brain-rot-oxford-word.html )

OUP on Oxford WOTY:https://corp.oup.com/word-of-the-year/ 

‘Brain rot’: Oxford word of the year 2024 reflects ‘trivial’ use of social media

Dan’s for Byline Times:https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/brain-rot-what-the-oxford-word-of (alt link:http://archive.today/2024.12.06-210125/https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/brain-rot-what-the-oxford-word-of )

Dan’s piece for Byline Times piece on ‘enshittification’:The Words That Define Our 'Enshittified' World alt link:http://archive.today/2024.11.16-094738/https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-words-that-define-our-enshittifed 

2024 Word of the Year | School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics 

‘Government by the worst’: why people are calling Trump’s new sidekicks a ‘kakistocracy’ | Trump administration | The Guardian 

Words of the year: maybe I’m delulu, but these don’t seem like words people actually use | Crosswords | The Guardian 

Nancy Friedman:https://bsky.app/profile/fritinancy.bsky.social 

Lexis is on Bluesky:https://bsky.app/profile/lexispodcast.bsky.social 

Contributors

Lisa Casey 

blog:https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter:Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)

Dan Clayton 

blog:EngLangBlog & Bluesky:https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social 

Jacky Glancey 

Twitter:https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey

Raj Rana & Matthew Butler 

Twitter:https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA 

Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys 

Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive:https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys