Don't Be An Accenthole
Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan talk with Ethan Kutlu, PhD student at the University of Florida about foreign accented speech (FAS), which foreign accents are judged more harshly, and why we should ...
9 Apr 201847min
Literally Exploding with Nerd Rage
Send us Fan Mail Megan and Carrie discuss Time's/The Muse's list of "bad" words. HEAVY SIGH. Transcript We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set ...
26 Mar 201844min
Black Lives Matter
Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan talk with Dr. Ersula Ore from Arizona State University about rhetoric, respectability politics, and her arrest near campus back in 2014. Her story intersects with the...
12 Mar 20181h 18min
Basque-ing in the European Sun
Send us Fan Mail Megan and Carrie talk with Dr. Itxaso Rodríguez-Ordóñez from Southern Illinois University Carbondale about Basque and the discrimination Basque speakers deal with in Spain and France....
26 Feb 201854min
They/Them/Theirs
Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan talk with Kirby Conrod, doctoral student at University of Washington, about trans language, including pronoun usage and singular they. Transcript We're an indie podca...
12 Feb 201847min
We're Ghana Talk English
Send us Fan Mail Megan and Carrie talk with Selikem Gotah, Masters student at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, about Ghanaian English, Ghanaian Pidgin English, and other languages of Ghana. Le...
29 Jan 201840min
Two Canadians, an Australian and an American walk into a Linguistics Conference...what is this, a crossover episode?
Send us Fan Mail In this special episode of the Vocal Fries, Carrie and Megan chat with Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne of Lingthusiasm about Australian and Canadian English while at the Linguisti...
15 Jan 201837min
French (Canadian) Fries
Send us Fan Mail Megan and Carrie talk with Dr. Nicole Rosen, Canada Research Chair in Language Interactions at the University of Manitoba about Canadian French, including Laurentian, Acadian and Méti...
1 Jan 201848min
