Language unites and divides us. It mystifies and delights us. Patrick Cox and Kavita Pillay tell the stories of people with all kinds of linguistic passions: comedians, writers, researchers; speakers of endangered languages; speakers of multiple languages; and just speakers—people like you and me.
Title | Date published | ||
Where did African American English come from? | 2022-10-05 | ||
A brief history of death threats | 2022-09-21 | ||
Latin, the undead language | 2022-09-07 | ||
Learning to love apostrophes | 2022-07-06 | ||
Hello, Goodbye | 2022-06-22 | ||
How the Ojibwe language survived the pandemic | 2022-06-08 | ||
Ukraine’s linguistic patriotism | 2022-05-25 | ||
The rare joys of learning Finnish | 2022-05-11 | ||
Presenting More Than a Feeling | 2022-04-27 | ||
Will climate change wipe out French in Louisiana? | 2022-04-13 | ||
When did comedians start saying ‘punching up’ and ‘punching down’? | 2022-03-30 | ||
The language of the outside people | 2022-03-16 | ||
The speechways of the folk | 2022-03-02 | ||
‘Manifesting’ the language of self-help | 2022-02-16 | ||
Why some words are just funny | 2022-02-02 | ||
A mother tongue reclaimed | 2022-01-19 | ||
Teach me your song | 2022-01-05 | ||
Once upon a hyphen… | 2021-12-15 | ||
Season 3 is coming | 2021-12-02 | ||
A language that survived the boarding schools | 2021-09-29 |