Words for Granted - An etymology and linguistics podcast

Ray Belli 141 - How Do New Words Get Added to the Dictionary? | Interview with Fiona McPherson

Words for Granted is a podcast that looks at how words change over time. Host Ray Belli uses linguistic evolution as a way of understanding larger historical and cultural changes.

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Words for Granted - An etymology and linguistics podcast

Episoade

How Do New Words Get Added to the Dictionary? | Interview with Fiona McPherson

A 5,000 Year History of Punctuation: Interview with Florence Hazrat

The Oxford Comma Debate: Interview with Jay Stookesbery

The Simplified Spelling Movement: Interview with Gabe Henry

The Proto-Indo-European Puzzle: Interview with Laura Spinney

The Science and History of English Accents: Interview with Valerie Fridland

The History of the Alphabet: Interview with Danny Bate

Lessons on Language with the Grammar Girl (Mignon Fogerty)

The Marvels of Translation: Interview with Keith Khan-Harris

The Power (and Omnipresence) of Rhetoric: Interview with Guy Doza

A Defense of "Bad" English: Interview with Valerie Fridland

Learning New Languages: Interview with Rob Paterson

Origins of Place Names: Interview with Duncan Madden

Grammatical Gender: Interview with Danny Bate

Episode 109: Trivia

African American English: Interview w/ Tracey Weldon

Episode 108: Understand

Episode 107: World

Deciphering Ancient Scripts: Interview with Silvia Ferrara

Episode 106: Grotesque

Episode 105: Idiot

Episode 104: Genius

Episode 103: Run Amok

Episode 102: Hyperbola/Hyperbole & Ellipse/Ellipsis

Episode 101: Parabola/Parable

Episode 100: Google

Episode 99: Average

Why Is English Highly Irregular? (Interview with Arika Okrent)

Episode 98: Lost Letters: Long s (ſ) and Ampersand (&)

Episode 97: Lost Letters: Ash (Æ, æ) and Ethel (Œ, œ)

Nine Nasty Words (Interview with John McWhorter) [EXPLICIT]

Episode 96: Lost Letters: Wynn (Ƿ), Insular G (ᵹ), Yogh (Ȝ)

Episode 95: Lost Letters: Eth and Thorn (Ð,ð and Þ, þ)

Episode 94: The Lost Letters of the English Alphabet (Overview)

Episode 93: Pasta

Episode 92: Meals (Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner)

Interview with Tim Brookes, founder of Endangered Alphabets

Episode 91: Artichoke

Episode 90: Apple

Episode 89: Cheese

Episode 88: Egg

Proto Indo-Europeans with Kevin Stroud of The History of English Podcast

Episode 87: Dead Ringer

Episode 86: Red Herring

Episode 85: The Proof Is in the Pudding

Interview with Simon Horobin, Author of "Bagels, Bumf, and Buses"

Episode 84: Break a Leg

Episode 83: Apple of the Eye

Episode 82: In a Pickle

Episode 81: Idioms (General Overview)