The Vocal Fries

By The Vocal Fries

The monthly podcast about linguistic discrimination. Learn about how we judge other people's speech as a sneaky way to be racist, sexist, classist, etc. Carrie and Megan teach you how to stop being

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The podcast currently has 153 episodes available.

The Vocal Fries episodes:

April 17, 2023Figgy, Gills and Bobby
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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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58min
March 13, 2023Don't be an *, be a 🐈
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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, cervixes, etc.

Whale vocal fry:
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nytimes
Background on phonic lips
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58min
February 13, 2023The People's Tongue
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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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57min
January 30, 2023The Freeze Peach Paradox
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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 newest book You Can't Always Say What You Want: The Paradox of Free Speech.

What do moos mean?
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52min
December 12, 2022Dr G Squared
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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, gender, class, and linguistic consciousness as a member of the Black Power Generation of the 1960s and 70s.

Quebec economic immigrants
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57min
December 09, 2022Bonus WOTY 2022
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Example bonus episode from November 2022.

We talk WOTY22!

Full episode coming soon
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17min
November 07, 2022Brasse pa lamèrd
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Megan and Carrie talk with Jonathan "radbwa faroush" Myers and Adrien Guillory-Chatman, members of the first Wikitongues cohort, about Kouri-Vini, aka Louisiana Creole, a French Creole spoken mainly in Louisiana.

Collins' WOTY22
A discussion of Ukrainian to English transliteration
Dictionary.com's new words
Learn Kouri-Vini
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1h 3min
October 17, 2022Cruz Control
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Carrie and Megan talk with Maureen Kosse, linguistics PhD student at University of Colorado Boulder, about her paper "Ted Cruz Cucks Again", the origins and meaning of "cuck", white supremacy, antisemitism, and the alt-right.

Check out The Story of Woman podcast Carrie mentions in the intro
The Authority Gap
Morality of Abortion
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59min
September 19, 2022Evil Sorting Hat of Whiteness
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Megan and Carrie talk with Dr JPB Gerald, host of Unstandardized English, a podcast about language teaching, race, and whiteness, about his new book Antisocial Language Teaching: English and the Pervasive Pathology of Whiteness.
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56min
August 29, 2022The Duct Tape of Language
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You asked for it and it finally happened: the You're Wrong About/Vocal Fries crossover event is here.

Carrie and Megan talk with Sarah Marshall about bimbos, vocal fry, the word "like" and many other things.

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1h 5min

FAQs about The Vocal Fries:

How many episodes does The Vocal Fries have?

The podcast currently has 153 episodes available.

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