69: Mailbagussy
Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language. · Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård
January 27, 20231h 36mExplicit
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Show Notes
The American Dialect Society Word of the Year has been chosen — and it's a wonderful and terrible pick! Depending on who you're talking to. In this episode, we're talking about -USSY and all the words.
And we're getting to our Mailbag, with our most intriguing research project ever: can you spot the pattern in the way Ben pronounces EITHER and NEITHER? Is there one?