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.

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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
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