All Things Linguistic

April, May, & June 2025: Lauren writes a gesture book!

January, February, and March 2025: 100th Lingthusiasm episode

2024 Year in Review

Lingthusiasm Episode 107: Urban Multilingualism

it is a truth universally acknowledged that a linguist who spots a linguistically interesting street…

Language is mobile and liable to change … a very large number of words have two or more…

Lingthusiasm Episode 106: Is a hotdog a sandwich? The problem with definitions

Lingthusiasm Episode 105: Linguistics of TikTok - Interview with Adam Aleksic aka EtymologyNerd

Bonus 100: Advice #2 - Fun linguistic experiments, linguistic etiquette, and language learning scenarios

Lingthusiasm Episode 104: Reading and language play in Sámi - Interview with Hanna-Máret Outakoski

This is a particularly fun bonus episode and I’ve been enjoying seeing everyone’s comments on it!

October, November, & December 2024: Lingthusiasm Makes the New York Times Word Nerd Top Five

I’m very excited that Lauren has finally written the book I asked her for 7 years ago, when I was…

July, Aug, Sept 2024: Lo! An un-detached Eurotrip!

103: A hand-y guide to gesture

Bonus 98: Linguist Celebrities

Lingthusiasm Episode 102: The science and fiction of Sapir-Whorf

Bonus 96: What makes for beautiful writing, scientifically speaking

Lingthusiasm Episode 101: Micro to macro - The levels of language

101 places to get enthusiastic about linguistics

April, May, & June 2024: LingComm Grants, a paper about Crash Course Linguistics, and boopguistics 

People often ask me what my favourite Lingthusiasm episode is and the answer is often “whichever one…