We’re opening up the Mailbag for another episode.

  • Are sneezes written the same way everywhere?
  • Do all languages have rhyming name games?
  • Can all languages do all the things?
  • Why does “this and that” sound normal, but “that and this” sounds weird?
  • Why are people saying “process-eez”?
  • And what’s with “yeah nah”?

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TtT promo 2019-07-30 with Tom Reynolds: Mailbag

Daniel poses some mailbag questions to Tom. He’s got some pretty good answers!

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Leave That In! 373: Mailbag

Why is the sky blue? Ben once stumped noted science communicator Dr Karl with a variant of this question.

What’s the deal with tense? Hedvig explains that the present is a fleeting moment.

And why are Australians okay with cold houses?

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Show notes

Learn how to sneeze in 10 different languages
https://www.lostateminor.com/2014/02/06/learn-sneeze-10-languages/

The Question: Do hearing people fake their sneezes? We need to know | The Limping Chicken
https://limpingchicken.com/2013/04/30/sneezes/

How To Respond To A Sneeze In 6 Different Languages
https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/how-to-respond-to-sneeze-in-6-different-languages/

Response to sneezing – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Response_to_sneezing

Shirley Ellis: The Name Game

View post on imgur.com

How to insult in verse.
https://slate.com/culture/2006/04/how-to-insult-in-verse.html

Dragons in the Sky : English Speaking Communities at the Close of the Millenia
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~stuart/dits/content_verbal.html

Examples of poetic interaction | Kairos @ Laetus-in-Praesens.org
http://kairos.laetusinpraesens.org/caucasz_1_h_3

The Skeletal Welsh Horse You Must Beat in a Battle of Rhymes
https://hyperallergic.com/345156/the-welsh-undead-horse-of-christmas-you-must-beat-in-a-battle-of-rhymes/

Mari Lwyd – Gastro Obscura
https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/mari-lwyd-horse-skull-wales-wassailing

The Tradition of the Mari Lywd

($$) Revisiting binomial order in English: ordering constraints and reversibility | English Language & Linguistics | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/english-language-and-linguistics/article/revisiting-binomial-order-in-english-ordering-constraints-and-reversibility1/DF6A2557274D84CD335A9AB113A23F20

Processes | Definition of Processes at Dictionary.com
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/processes

Scholarly pronunciation of “processes” – Straight Dope Message Board
https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=664843

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