A podcast about the scientific study of language and the brain. Neuroscientist Stephen Wilson talks with leading and up-and-coming researchers about their work and ideas. This podcast is geared to an audience o...

Light-hearted conversation with callers from all over about new words, old sayings, slang, family expressions, language change and varieties, as well as word histories, linguistics, regional dialects, word game...

Adventures in language with Helen Zaltzman. Find all the episodes, transcripts and further information about all the topics and guests, at TheAllusionist.org. Seek out @allusionistshow on Twitter, Instagram and...

A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics by Gretchen McCulloch (All Things Linguistic) and Lauren Gawne (Superlinguo). A weird and deep conversation about language delivered right to your ears the third ...

Series exploring the world of words and the ways in which we use them

A feed from the Slate podcast network featuring episodes with enlightening conversations, opposing views, and plenty of healthy disputes. You'll get a curated selection of episodes from programs like What Next,...

An appreciation & exploration of linguists, language, poetry, and clever word play as framed by the peerless poetry of the modern day master, Elvis Costello

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 an accidenta...

Aven & Mark discuss etymology, history, literature, language, and cocktails, and the sometimes surprising connections between them all.

A Canadian (Ryan) and a Scot (Amy) talking about the words in the English language that fascinate them most at the moment, looking at their histories and origins and trying to piece together just how they got t...

Salutations Toppers, and thank you for lending me your ears! Episode 77 topics: The oldest trick in the book; Don’t judge a book by its cover; Bookworm; Take a leaf out of their book; To read between the lines ...

Perfect sentences and slang that tickles your mind! A new book of writing advice says a good sentence “imposes a logic on the world’s weirdness” and pares away options for meaning, word by word. • Your musician...

Carrie and Megan talk with Dr. Matthew Garley, Assistant Professor at CUNY, York College, about the use of Spanish and Spanglish in rap.We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your...

Scott and Steve reminisce about the nineties in this dope, fly, funky, fresh episode about the idioms, "Saved by the Bell" and "Off the Hook." But first, Steve talks about how much vomit is too much vomit and w...

Salutations Toppers, and thank you for lending me your ears! Episode 76 topics: I don’t cotton to that; In high cotton, History of cotton candy You can check out my website, turnofphrases.com to send topic sugg...

In this episode, Amy looks at bishops, arms and bosoms with "fathom" and Ryan ponders lazy colonial geography errors with "turkey". Lexitecture is a podcast about words. In each episode, a Canadian (Ryan) and ...

If you want to be a better writer, try skipping today’s bestsellers, and read one from the 1930’s instead. Or read something besides fiction in order to find your own metaphors and perspective. Plus, just becau...

The English name for the country of ‘Wales’ is not native to Wales itself. It actually has origins in a derogatory term given by the AngloSaxons to their Celtic neighbors. The word ‘Wales’ has cognates in all o...

THIS IS A VOICE ONLY VERSION OF SEASON 01. en clair is a podcast about forensic linguistics, literary detection, and language mysteries. You can find credits, links, podcast transcripts, and more about each epi...

In 2010, Paul Ceglia sues Mark Zuckerberg for half of Facebook. In response, Zuckerberg calls in a forensic linguist. En clair is a podcast about forensic linguistics, literary detection, and language mysteries...