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The Year That Killed Received Pronunciation (RP)
[…] Practically the moment the familiar vowel symbols for British English were published, they plummeted drastically out of fashion. This video explains how and why. 0:00 Introduction 1:04 MyHeritage 2:45 A. C. Gimson’s book 5:33 The 1960’s 10:30 Advanced RP … Continue reading
Can you be gormful, wistless or ert?
oin word nerds Jess and Rob as they uncover English’s unpaired words, lost positives and orphaned negatives. Why can you be “nonchalant” but not “chalant”? If something perfect is “immaculate”, what does it mean to be “maculate”? And if you’re … Continue reading
What would an alien language look like?
Disappointed by the alien languages you see in movies? I have good news! There is a new branch of linguistics—Xenolinguistics—dedicated to imagining what an alien language might actually look like! In this video, I want to explore the weirdness of … Continue reading
Edward Gibson: Human Language, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Grammar & LLMs | Lex Fridman Podcast #426
Edward Gibson is a psycholinguistics professor at MIT and heads the MIT Language Lab. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Yahoo Finance: https://yahoofinance.com – Listening: https://listening.com/lex and use code LEX to get one month free – … Continue reading
Why is it a “murder” of crows?
From a ‘business (or ‘busyness’) of ferrets’ to a ‘drunkship of cobblers’: join Jess and Rob to collectively explore the weird world of collective nouns. Hear all about the bizarre book that coined scores of these terms, which are also … Continue reading
Are you getting these wrong too?
Join word nerds Jess Zafarris and Rob Watts (aka RobWords) as they discuss amusing mis-heard phrases and vocabulary snafus known as “eggcorns,” “malapropisms,” and “mondegreens.” 👂LISTEN: https://podfollow.com/words-unravelle… or search for “Words Unravelled” wherever you get your podcasts. […]
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