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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 Floss Curious Compendium of Wonderful Words: A Miscellany of Obscure Terms, Bizarre Phrases & Surprising Etymologies

• Silver Lining of pandemic 

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Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Robert Englebretson, Associate Professor in Linguistics at Rice University, about all things braille. 

Sources:

• https://www.doi.org/10.1017/S0142716423000061
• http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~reng/ling327syllabus.pdf
• https://news2.rice.edu/2019/07/23/rice-study-seeks-to-improve-braille-literacy-2/
• Kleege, Georgina. 2006. "Visible braille/invisible blindness." Journal
   of Visual Culture, 5 (2): 209-218. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470412906066909
• https://pbs.jhu.edu/directory/marina-bedny/

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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 pronounce Nevada, and all things language.

• Charles Boberg's article on 'foreign (a)'
• Words with no English equivalents

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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!

Intro discussion:

• video 
• Vox article

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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:

• npr
• wapo
• nytimes

Background on phonic lips

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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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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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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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Example bonus episode from November 2022.

We talk WOTY22!

Full episode coming soon

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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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