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196: Irish

17 March 2015 / / Comments Off on 196: Irish

The Irish language is attracting a lot of attention.

It’s now a major player among minority languages, but even so, it’s a surprisingly contentious topic for many.

Linguist Daniel Midgley finds out what it’s all about on this episode of …

190: Rap Linguistics (featuring Darin Flynn)

3 February 2015 / / Comments Off on 190: Rap Linguistics (featuring Darin Flynn)

Rap is the music of the street. And now it’s on campus.

Linguist Darin Flynn has created a university linguistics class that puts rap lyrics on the syllabus. What can hip-hop poets tell us about language?

Dr Flynn tells Daniel …

150: The Voynich Manuscript

11 February 2014 / / Comments Off on 150: The Voynich Manuscript

The Voynich Manuscript is 600 years old, written in a strange script, and it’s never been deciphered.

Is it a guide to the universe, a book of secrets, or is it just pages and pages of gibberish? Modern techniques are …

133: Hobson-Jobson

3 September 2013 / / Comments Off on 133: Hobson-Jobson

What is Hobson-Jobson?

It’s a book about words, society, and culture among Britons living in India in the late 1800s. Many words that we use today were documented for the first time in its pages. Which words are we still …

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