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- 395: Outed or Misgendered (with Cedar Brown)
- 394: What’s Your Pronoun? (with Dennis Baron)
- 393: Push and Pull (Live Q&A)
- 392: Your Voice (with Jane Setter)
- 391: Words of the Year 2019
- 390: Words of the Week of the Year 2019 (Live Q&A)
- 389: Mailbag of Pronouns
- 388: Lies, All Lies (with Georgina Heydon, Heather Wilson, and Amanda Hamilton-Hollaway)
- 387: The Language of Emotion (with Maïa Ponsonnet, Steven Gagau, and Jodie Kell)
- 386: English Needs These Idioms (Live Q&A)
- 385: You Look Like a Thing (with Janelle Shane)
- 384: Mailbag of Welcome
- 383: Decolonising the Archive (with Emma Murphy and Caroline Hughes)
- 382: There’s No Enhance Button (with Helen Fraser)
- 381: A Hard Spell (Live Q&A)
- 380: Emoji Innovations (Live Q&A)
- 379: Indigenous Signed Languages (with Rodney Adams and Steph Tisdell)
- 378: Bugger All (with Isabelle Burke)
- 377: Mailbag of Uncomfortableness
- 376: Language Hotspots (with Xia Hua)
- 375: Community Size Matters (with Limor Raviv)
- 374: Polari, Britain’s Lost Gay Language (with Paul Baker, Grant Mathumba Thompson, and Alexandra Marley)
- 373: Mailbag of Processes
- 372: Because Internet (with Gretchen McCulloch and Grant Mathumba Thompson)
- 371: -nado, -holic, -pocalypse: Combining Forms (Live Q&A)
- 370: Named Wrong (Live Q&A)
- 369: The Grammarian Is In (with Ellen Jovin and Pete Swanton)
- 368: Poetry (with Pete Swanton)
- Lexitecture crossover (with Ryan Paulsen and Amy Hanlon)
- 367: Your Inner Prescriptivist (with Alyssa Severin and Pete Swanton)
- 366: Oxbows (Live Q&A)
- 365: Difficult Words (with Jane Solomon, Alexandra Marley, and Janice Nalorlman)
- 364: Mailbag of R-R-R-R
- 363: Talking Race (with Jessi Grieser)
- 362: Gesture in Mind (with Violet Wardrill)
- 361: Helping My Language Live – Language Activism (with Margaret Florey)
- 360: Familiolects (Live Q&A)
- 359: False Friends (Live Q&A)
- 358: Mailbag of Mallets
- 357: The F-Word (with Jesse Sheidlower)
- 356: The The Show (with Nick Wilson)
- 355: The Bee Show (with Stephen Mann)
- 354: Shiny Crumb (Live Q&A)
- 353: Mailbag of Highly Intelligent Listeners
- 352: Wait (with Sali Tagliamonte)
- 351: A Perfect Alphabet (or, The Royal Tweet)
- 350: Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish (with Zalmen Mlotek and Motl Didner)
- 349: Words of the Year 2018
- Fluent Show crossover (with Kerstin Cable and Lindsay Williams)
- 348: Microcosm (featuring Rachel Hendery)
- 347: Not Rocket Surgery (featuring Kari Sullivan and William Black)
- 346: What Works (featuring Dan Dediu)
- 345: Talk on the Wild Side (featuring Lane Greene)
- 344: Coincidences and Surprising Connections (featuring Bethwyn Evans)
- 343: Moon Moons and Reduplication Reduplication
- 342: Mailbag of Vague
- 341: What the F (featuring Benjamin Bergen)
- 340: Ethics in Big Data (featuring Hannah Rashkin and Maarten Sap)
- Fiat Lex crossover (with Kory Stamper and Steve Kleinedler)
- 339: How English Could Be Way Cooler
- 338: Signed Language (featuring Ulrike Zeshan and Christy Filipich)
- 337: Getting the Bias out of Data (featuring Robyn Speer and Kai-Wei Chang)
- 336: Kinship Terms
- 335: One Hundred Things (featuring Emily Bender)
- 334: Mailbag of Darkness
- Radiothon 2018 special
- 333: When Sapir Met Whorf (featuring Mikael Parkvall and Östen Dahl)
- 332: Social (featuring Ketan Joshi, live at Disrupted 2018)
- Vocal Fries crossover (with Carrie Gillon and Megan Figueroa)
- Solo shows mid-2018
- 331: Koko
- 330: Making Words for Miriwoong (featuring Knut Olawsky)
- 329: Pokémonikers (featuring Stephanie Shih)
- 328: She Writes Dictionaries (featuring Jane Solomon)
- 327: How We Talk (featuring Nick Enfield and Simeon Floyd)
- 326: Linguistics in the Pub (live with Pint of Science, featuring Amy Budrikis and Troy Reynolds)
- 325: Mailbag of Moisture
- 324: Translanguaging (featuring Rhonda Oliver)
- 323: Flip Yeah Taboo Avoidance
- 322: Sense of Direction (featuring Alice Gaby)
- 321: Language Face to Face (featuring Rachel Romeo)
- 320: Love Your Larynx (featuring Thila Raja)
- 319: The Prodigal Tongue (featuring Lynne Murphy)
- Solo Show: One for @talkrtr
- 318: Mailbag of Awesome
- 317: With Big Data Comes Big Responsibility (featuring Seán Roberts)
- 316: Numbers and the Making of Us (featuring Caleb Everett)
- 315: Grammar Day
- 314: International Mother Language Day (featuring Ingrid Piller)
- 313: That’s Cool. That’s Hot. (featuring Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm)
- 312: Words of the Year 2017 (featuring Grant Barrett)
- Interview with VSauce! Brain Candy tour
- 311: Quick Shots 2: The Quickening
- 310: Sign Language Gloves (featuring Adam Schembri and William Bowe)
- 309: How Linguistic Is Neuro-linguistic Programming?
- 308: Pet Translator
- 307: Sexy Neural Net (featuring Janelle Shane)
- 306: Deception Detection (featuring Victoria Rubin, Sarah Cornwell, and Sophie Richard)
- 305: Updating Shakespeare (featuring the artists of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival)
- 304: Genericide (live at Camp Doogs)
- 303: Creoles 2 (featuring John McWhorter, Knut Olawsky, & Ji-Soo Kweon)
- 302: Creoles 1 (featuring Damián Blasi)
- 301: Mailbag of Wonder
- 300: Is Grammar Elitist?
- 299: Men Splain Things to Me (featuring Lara B. Sharp)
- 298: West African Pidgin English
- 297: Let’s Hear It for the Speechies (featuring Jamaica Grantis)
- Radiothon Special 2017
- 296: Geophonetics, Round 3 (featuring Caleb Everett)
- 295: Yawuru (featuring Dalisa Pigram) – live at the Disrupted Festival
- 294: Trademarks and Slurs (featuring Simon Tam)
- 293: A Computer Walks into a Bar
- 292: Mailbag of Destiny
- 291: Covfefe
- 290: Language Does Not Determine Your Thoughts (Whorfianism)
- 289: What Helps Babies Learn Language?
- 288: Letters Lost
- 287: Is a Hot Dog a Sandwich?
- 286: Lexical Appropriation (featuring Nicole Holliday)
- 285: Quick Shots
- 284: Feral Children
- 283: Pun Intended (featuring Janani Krishnan-Jha and Hedvig Skirgård)
- 282: Why Subject First? (featuring Hedvig Skirgård)
- 281: The Emoji Code (featuring Vyvyan Evans)
- 280: Contractions
- 279: Mailbag – Competitive Edition
- 278: Like (featuring Alexandra D’Arcy)
- 277: All About Accents
- 276: English Only
- 275: The Linguistic Listician (featuring Arika Okrent)
- 274: Linguistic Activism (featuring Christine Mallinson)
- 273: Voice of the Apes
- 272: Sing Loud Sing Proud (featuring Jo Randell)
- 271: Words of the Year 2016
- 270: Post-Truth
- 269: Mailbag Episode
- 268: Dialect (featuring Kathryn Hymes and Hakan Seyalioglu)
- 267: Shakespeare and Marlowe (featuring Eve Siebert)
- 266: Names
- 265: Universal Grammar 2 (featuring Dan Everett and Lynne Murphy)
- 264: Spurious Etymologies (live at Camp Doogs)
- 263: We Manterrupt This Broadcast
- 262: Universal Grammar
- 261: Red Big Balloon (featuring Damián Blasi)
- 260: Promoting LOTE (featuring Annie Demosthenous)
- 259: Does Your Dog Understand You? (featuring Monica)
- 258: The Future of French (featuring Sophie Richard)
- 257: Alien Languages
- Radiothon 2016 Special
- 256: Numbers
- 255: Diagnosing from Words (featuring Katie Fraser)
- 254: Plagiarism
- 253: Secret Professional Slang (featuring Dr Brian Goldman and Ji-Soo Kweon)
- 252: The Tower of Babel
- 251: Brexit Language Fallout
- 250: Comma Sutra (featuring Louisa Fitzhardinge)
- 249: Big Big Mailbag
- 248: Dog Whistles and Dead Cats (featuring Howie Manns)
- 247: Singlish (featuring Sean Yeo)
- 246: Yiddish (featuring Ben Zimmer)
- 245: Language Fact or Fiction?
- 244: Brain Thesaurus (featuring David J. Peterson)
- 243: Synaesthesia
- 242: Swedish (featuring Hedvig Skirgård and Anna Melberg)
- 241: Emoji Disasters
- 240: Bite the Wax Tadpole
- 239: Animal Syntax
- 238: Questions, Questions
- 237: Hinglish (featuring Sana Bharadwaj)
- 236: Spelling Reform
- 235: Worst Words (featuring Don Watson)
- 234: Disruptive Language Tech
- 233: Comedy in Translation (featuring Kuah Jenhan)
- 232: Rabid Linguists
- 231: The Really Big Show (featuring Alexis Dubus and Len Collard)
- 230: End-of-Year Wrap-Up
- 229: Social Justice Lexicon (featuring Ji-Soo Kweon)
- 228: Ludlings
- 227: Are Emoji Words?
- 226: Shakespeare in Translation 2 (featuring Celeste Rodriguez Louro, Migdalia Cruz, and Taylor Mac)
- 225: Shakespeare in Translation 1 (featuring Lue Douthit)
- 224: Bad Linguistics
- 223: Mailbag
- 222: Brain, Body, Baby
- 221: Getting the Picture (featuring Matt Purver)
- 220: Not So Arbitrary
- 219: Eggcorns
- 218: The F-Word
- 217: Homo naledi and Language
- 216: The Cutting Edge
- 215: Is Cantonese Endangered? (featuring Zoe Lam)
- 214: Whistled Languages
- Radiothon 2015 Special
- 213: Short and Sweet
- 212: Fourth Floor
- 211: Newsbag
- 210: Listener Feedback
- 209: Typography
- 208: Bogan Linguistics (featuring Roz Rowen)
- 207: Language Learning App Road-Test
- 206: Baby Talk, or Not?
- 205: Lost Writing
- 204: Shibboleths
- 203: Modern Australian Usage (featuring Nicholas Hudson)
- 202: Lying
- 201: The First Language
- 200: Offensive Things
- 199: Computer Humour
- 198: The Geography of Sound (featuring Caleb Everett)
- 197: The Birthplace of Indo-European (featuring Luisa Miceli)
- 196: Irish
- 195: Palindromes
- 194: Auslan Advocacy (featuring Drisana Levitzke-Gray)
- 193: The Bilingual Advantage
- 192: Linguistic Movies
- 191: Ape Accents
- 190: Rap Linguistics (featuring Darin Flynn)
- 189: Words of the Year 2014
- Big news for Talk the Talk!
- 188: The Language Myth (featuring Vyvyan Evans)
- 187: Emoji
- 186: No Puns in China
- 185: Listener Questions
- 184: We Do Language (featuring Anne Charity Hudley)
- 183: The End of Cursive
- 182: Machine Translation
- 181: Is Aussie Slang Dying out?
- 180: Bad English (featuring Ammon Shea)
- 179: Onomatopoeia
- 178: Village Sign Languages
- 177: Speed Reading
- 176: Language Myths (featuring Karen Stollznow)
- 175: Mother Tongues
- 174: Big Data, Small World
- 173: Metaphor in Brainspace (featuring Thalia Wheatley and Beth Castieau)
- Radiothon 2014 Special
- 172: Why It’s Hard to Learn a Language
- 171: Word Crimes 2
- 170: Word Crimes 1
- 169: Kalyakoorl (featuring Gina Williams and Guy Ghouse)
- Midyear hiatus, 2014
- 168: In Praise of Ambiguity
- 167: The Language Hoax (featuring John McWhorter)
- 166: Mondegreens
- 165: Little Sponges
- 164: Sounding Gay
- 163: EvoLang (featuring Mark Ellison)
- 162: Conlangs 2
- 161: Conlangs 1
- 160: Evidence for Innateness?
- 159: Taboo Grammar (featuring James Bednall and Joe Blythe)
- 158: English Plurals
- 157: Digital Extinction
- 156: Emotional Language
- 155: The Language of Denialism (featuring Kylie Sturgess)
- 154: Pointing
- 153: Acting Human
- 152: Listening to Plants (featuring Monica Gagliano)
- 151: Search Censorship
- 150: The Voynich Manuscript
- 149: Tongue Twisters
- 148: The Language of Smell
- 147: Words of the Year 2013 (featuring Ben Zimmer)
- 146: Gender ID
- 145: Esperanto
- 144: Huh? (featuring Simon Tam)
- 143: Racial Terms
- 142: Yeah No
- 141: Australianisms (featuring Ben Yagoda)
- 140: Grammar Grouches in the News
- 139: Genderless Pronouns
- 138: Proto-Indo-European
- 137: Shakespeare’s Words
- 136: Punctuation Day
- 135: Language Detective (featuring Sali Tagliamonte)
- 134: Glossolalia
- 133: Hobson-Jobson
- 132: Language Protectionism
- 131: Dolphin Names
- 130: Foreign Accent Syndrome (featuring Karen Croot)
- 129: Light Warlpiri
- 128: Your Brain on Language
- 127: English Is Weird
- 126: Detecting Suicide
- 125: Computers Can Do That? (featuring Arjun Mukherjee)
- 124: Sound Reasoning
- 123: The Longest Word
- 122: Spelling Bee
- 121: GIF
- 120: Homophobia Out of Sport
- 119: Ultraconservative Words (featuring Luisa Miceli)
- 118: Navajo
- 117: Rise of the Robo-Markers
- 116: Downton Anachrony
- 115: John Gumperz
- 114: Word Aversion
- 113: Laughter and Tears
- 112: Duolingo
- 111: All the Words in the World (featuring Robert Munro)
- 110: Brahmin Chant
- 109: Birds and Bees
- 108: Language in Utero
- 107: Linguistic Time Machine
- 106: Scrabble Points
- 105: Language and the Pirahã, Part 2 (featuring Daniel Everett)
- 104: Language and the Pirahã, Part 1 (featuring Daniel Everett)
- 103: Fetch the Dax
- 102: Non-English Wikipedias
- 101: Words of the Year 2012
- 100: Mayan
- 99: ‘Cos and Because (featuring Kate Burridge)
- 98: Homophobia
- 97: Monkey Gone to Heaven
- 96: The Copiale Cipher
- 95: Whales and Elephants
- 94: Language in the Asian Century
- 93: The R-Word
- 92: Ease v. Clarity
- 91: Political Gestures
- 90: New Signs for New Times
- 89: Banned Books
- 88: Our Land, Our Languages
- 87: Blasphemy!
- 86: Apple’s Genius Guide
- 85: Singing Mice
- 84: Language and Bias
- 83: Language from Charades (featuring Nicolas Fay)
- 82: Fast Learners
- 81: Tween Texting Terror
- 80: Semantic Illusions
- 79: Kinship Terms (featuring Charles Kemp)
- 78: Henge
- 77: Robot Baby
- 76: Bogan
- 75: Gorilla Baby-Talk
- 74: Search Insights
- 73: Lost in Translation
- 72: What Not to Say
- 71: Really Old Art
- 70: Persabian Gulf
- 69: Words with Baboons
- 68: Passive Voice Day
- 67: Dying Words (featuring Nick Evans)
- 66: Logos
- 65: Fire
- 64: Life Without Numbers (featuring Caleb Everett)
- 63: Uptalk
- 62: Carillon Shemozzle
- 61: Sign to Text
- 60: Speech-Jamming Gun
- 59: France Bans Mademoiselle
- 58: Goat Accents
- 57: The Middle Finger
- 56: Reading Thoughts
- 55: Siri and Speech Recognition, Part 2
- 54: Siri and Speech Recognition, Part 1
- 53: Words of the Year 2011
- 52: Carols
- 51: Songs in Invented Tongues
- 50: SlutWalk (featuring Beth Castieau)
- 49: Linguistic Savings
- 48: Yucca Mountain Warning
- 47: Spoke Differently They?
- 46: Speech Accent Archive (featuring Steven Weinberger)
- 45: Languages of the Commonwealth
- 44: Spam Spotting
- 43: Um
- 42: Learning from Twitter
- 41: You Are What You Speak (featuring Lane Greene)
- 40: Silent Letters
- 39: Colours in Himba
- 38: Austalk (featuring Celeste Rodriguez Louro)
- 37: Gadafi or Khaddhaffy?
- 36: Go the Fuck to Sleep
- 35: Americanisms
- 34: Neanderthals
- 33: Weird Words (featuring Rod L. Evans)
- 32: Birdsong Syntax
- 31: Who Wrote the Bible?
- 30: Swedish Pronouns and Gender
- 29: Time in Amondawa (featuring Chris Sinha)
- 28: Spying for Metaphor
- 27: Swearing in Victoria
- 26: Language Volunteering (featuring Robyn Knight)
- 25: The Most Human Human (featuring Brian Christian)
- 24: Planking
- 23: Bilingualism in Schools
- 22: Super-brain (featuring John Hoffecker)
- 21: King James Version
- 20: It Began in Africa
- 19: Language Change, Literally
- 18: App
- 17: OMG, Oxford! WTF?
- 16: Letters and Hyphens
- 15: Baby Talk
- 14: Bilingualism and Alzheimer’s
- 13: The King’s Speech
- 12: OK (featuring Allan Metcalf)
- 11: Shit Happens
- 10: Google and Bing
- 9: Chaser the Border Collie
- 8: Money for Nothing
- 7: Watson
- 6: Huck Finn and the N-Word
- 5: Words of the Year 2010
- 4: Language Evolution (featuring W. Tecumseh Fitch)
- 3: Pavlova
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