The students featured, in order of appearance, are:

* Sinaed Callaghan is from Glasgow. She has just completed her joint honours degree with English Language and History. Her dissertation looked at the linguistic variable (ing) and how it was used differently throughout a speakers life span. You can find her on twitter at @SinaedC.

* Ryan Shaw-Hawkins is from Stevenage in Hertfordshire, and has just completed his third year. He hopes to continue on into postgraduate study in sociolinguistics. 

* Mitchell McKee is a Glasgow native and has just finished his second year . He has enjoyed studying historical and contemporary linguistics and hopes to continue his studies into the future. 

* Niklas Thielking is from Hanover and is a postgraduate student in linguistics He is currently working on his thesis, investigating the articulation and acoustics of /s/-retraction in Glasgow. For this work he combines ultrasound tongue imaging and audio recordings.

* Vanessa Rust is from Germany and is a postgraduate sociolinguistics student soon to finish. She is working on her dissertation, with which she wants to find out the difference in native and non-native use of discourse markers, with a focus on German speakers’ English. You can find her on Instagram and twitter @vanrust.

* Isadora Bueno is from Brazil and has just finished her first year. She is a Theatre Studies and Literature student and hopes to continue on to her PhD focused on the representation of minorities on stage and screen. 

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In this episode Ryan talks about place names, and how they often contain traces of languages and parts of language that have long fallen out of day-to-day use. If you’d like to learn more about the roots of some place names in Scotland, have a look at the website of the SWAP project.

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