All episodes
There Are Two N-Words
The Thing Is Is
An Accidental Sanctity
Thanksgiving Misnomers
Sometimes Just Because
Against Strunk and White
Whence Baby Mama?
Este No Es Parqueo
From Pidgins to Creoles
Do Languages Simplify Over Time?
Did Cavebabies Say Mama and Papa?
New Life for Dying Languages
Negatory! A Brief History of No.
Why Do Languages Have Contractions?
The Incredible Lightness of Being
Is There a Jewish Way of Talking?
Mining Graffiti for Slang
Don't Tell Me Reune Is Not a Word
The Language of Female Friendships
The Euphemism Treadmill
Heyo, Let's Talk About Hamilton
How Did Americans Talk a Hundred Years Ago?
Like, Why Do We Use Like So Much?
What Had Happened Was Storytelling
Why We Stopped Teaching Children How to Read
Away in a Penthouse, the Little Lord Jesus
What "The Wizard of Oz" Can Tell Us About "Arrival"
Black Like Us
Language Lessons of Past Presidents
How You Vanquished Ye, Thee and Thou
Why Do People in Old Movies Talk Like That?
Billy and Me Went to the Store
What Is a Dictionary, Really?
The Invisible Language of Nursery Rhymes
Word Sex
Should Shakespeare Get a Modern English Makeover?
Are Emoji a Language?
Finding Life in a Dead Language
Rules Are Made to Be Spoken
Should We Make English Spelling Easier?
Your Brain on Profanity
LinguaFile XXIV | Roshambo
The Blaccent
LinguaFile XXIII | Red Herring
Defecation Presentation
LinguaFile XXII | Grain of Salt
The Full, Firm, Valiant and Heavy-Hearted Trump
LinguaFile XXI | Wazzock
The Fall and Rise of the Singular They
LinguaFile XX | In Cahoots
Tears of Joy, Identity and a Prism of Isms
LinguaFile XIX | 86'd
Snoozefest
LinguaFile XVIII | Hootenanny
A Cat, a Coward and Female Genitalia
LinguaFile XVII | Humdinger
Seven Centuries of F--ks
LinguaFile XVI | Boondoggle
How New York Became the Big Apple
LinguaFile XV | Gringo
What Do You Mean What Is It Like?
LinguaFile XIV | Heebie Jeebies
What's the Deal with Translating Seinfeld?
LinguaFile XIII | Bozo
The Pollyanna Hypothesis
LinguaFile XII | Kibitz
M'athchomaroon, Zhey Lajak Vezhven!
LinguaFile XI | Seersucker
Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
LinguaFile X | Pumpernickel
And Infinitum
LinguaFile IX | Carnival
Sex Workers
LinguaFile VIII | Quiz
The Many Lives of Anna Karenina
LinguaFile VII | Cockamamie
Exposure to Vape Culture
LinguaFile VI | Grog
What Does It Mean to Sound Gay?
LinguaFile V | Get One's Goat
Number Theory
LinguaFile IV | Snark
Man on the Street
LinguaFile III | Orange
Demonstratively Speaking
LinguaFile II | Lagniappe
The Manic Pixie and the Magical Negro
LinguaFile I | Discombobulate
Fisherman's Whorf
Legislating Language
The Dude Abides
Learning to Say No
Ask Not Who Wrote "Ask Not"
The End of Ambiguity
The Burden of Being Right
Name That Tone
Eject at High Altitude
30 Million By Four
A Brief History of Swearing
Accentuate the Positive