Cruz Control
Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan talk with Maureen Kosse, linguistics PhD student at University of Colorado Boulder, about her paper "Ted Cruz Cucks Again", the origins and meaning of "cuck", white...
17 Okt 202258min
Evil Sorting Hat of Whiteness
Send us Fan Mail Megan and Carrie talk with Dr JPB Gerald, host of Unstandardized English, a podcast about language teaching, race, and whiteness, about his new book Antisocial Language Teaching: Eng...
19 Sep 202255min
The Duct Tape of Language
Send us Fan Mail You asked for it and it finally happened: the You're Wrong About/Vocal Fries crossover event is here. Carrie and Megan talk with Sarah Marshall about bimbos, vocal fry, the word "lik...
29 Aug 20221h 4min
Bulls, apes, bats and chickens
Send us Fan Mail Megan and Carrie talk with Kory Stamper, lexicographer extraordinaire, about the history and use of the word "bullsh*t". Support the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespodBluesky ...
8 Aug 202258min
The Rickford Files
Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan talk with Dr. John Rickford, emeritus professor at Stanford, about his memoir, Speaking my Soul: Race, Life and Language, growing up in Guyana, moving to the United S...
11 Jul 202257min
Make Grammar Cool Again
Send us Fan Mail Megan and Carrie talk with Drs Andreea Calude and Laurie Bauer about their new textbook Mysteries of English Grammar: A Guide to Complexities of the English Language and their edited ...
13 Jun 20221h 4min
Reawakening Pentlatch
Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan talk with the Working Pentlatch Revitalization team (Mathew Andreatta, Jessie Recalma, Chief Michael Recalma, and Dr Su Urbanczyk) about their work on reawakening Pen...
30 Mai 202251min
John Mary Bill Sue
Send us Fan Mail Megan and Carrie talk with Dr Hadas Kotek, a linguist at Apple, about two of her papers: Gender bias in linguistics textbooks: Has anything changed since Macaulay & Brice 1997? and Ge...
16 Mai 20221h
