It’s Word of the Year time, and there are more words than ever before.
We bring you the results from the yearly American Dialect Society vote, and from dictionaries around the world on this episode of Talk the Talk.
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What were the words that marked our year?
Daniel was there for the serious, the social, and the silly at the American Dialect Society’s annual Word of the Year vote.
Hedvig and Daniel discuss all the words on this episode …
We get mail. From you. And today, we’re answering your questions.
How has jazz influenced our language? And what if you like language diversity, but you’re not too keen on how it’s used?
Daniel and Kylie answer them all on …
It’s Word of the Year season again, and Daniel was repping Talk the Talk at the year’s biggest vote.
But controversy surrounds the WotY. Is it too white, too old, and too male? How can this be helped?
Daniel regales …
This week, we’re looking back at the year that was.
What were our favourite shows? What does it mean if someone ‘deserves a pineapple’? And what will be the Word of the Week of the Year?
Daniel and Kylie are …
Are some words off-limits?
Many of us are aware of cultural appropriation: using symbols and clothing that pertain to another culture without attribution. But how does this relate to language? Is it okay to use the slang that originates …
Was 2016 a dumpster fire 🗑🔥? Or was it just fire 🔥?
It’s time to look back at the words that defined our time, enlivened our speech, and zeited our geist in the previous year.
Daniel, Ben, and …
Oxford Dictionaries has named its Word of the Year, and it’s post-truth.
Are we in a post-truth world? If you’re in the reality-based community, are you obsolete? Or do facts still matter?
We’ll also reveal what word is the …
It’s the last show of the year, and we’ve got Daniel, Ben, and Kylie live in the studio.
We’re discussing everything from punctuation in texting, to YouTube voice. And we unveil our Word of the Year.
All on this episode …
Can an emoji be a word?
Oxford Dictionaries thinks so — they chose one as their Word of the Year. And this has language purists fuming. But what exactly is a word?
Linguist Daniel Midgley explains on this episode of …
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