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All Episodes

Lexis — 87 episodes

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Episode 87 - York English Language Toolkit 2026 with Devyani Sharma & Sam Hellmuth

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Episode 86 - Chris Montgomery & regional swearing

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Episode 85 - Rob Topinka & digital rhetoric

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Episode 84 - Daria Bahtina and 'Gen Z slang'

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Episode 83 - Sarah Hopkyns and English in the Gulf

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Episode 82 - Rianna Walcott & Black Twitter

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Episode 81 - Jessica Aiston & Eltham Hill School students on the language of neurodiversity

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Episode 80 - Matthew Hunt on voice pitch

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Episode 79 - Charlotte Entwistle on language & personality disorders

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Episode 78 - John Kelly and the 2025 Words of the Year

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Episode 77 - Lynne Murphy and the 'Americanisation' of young people's English

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Episode 76 - Dani Yin & Cheryl Wakslak on gender and exclamation marks in digital communication

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Episode 75 - Teachers' Accents special

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Episode 74 - Laura Smith-Khan and the language of law

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Episode 73 - York English Language Toolkit preview 2025

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Episode 72 - Karrin Vasby Anderson on gender, politics and power

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Episode 71 - Mercedes Durham & Welsh English

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Episode 70 - Emma Humphries & prescriptivism

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Episode 69 - Natalie Braber & Alice Paver on accent stereotypes

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Episode 68 - Tony Thorne on the new words of 2024 & 2025

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Episode 67 - Joe McVeigh on how to spot a bad linguistics article

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Episode 66 - Andreea Calude & the language of social media

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Episode 65 - Jullietta Stoencheva on everyday extremism

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Episode 64 - Katie Mansfield on working-class children & standard English in the classroom

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Episode 63 - Isobelle Clarke and anti-science discourses

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Episode 62 - Fiona McPherson and 20 Years of Oxford WOTY

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Episode 61 - Lucy Jones on Words We Live By: A Guide to LGBTQ+ Language

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Episode 60 - Stylistics with Peter Stockwell and Jessica Norledge

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Episode 59 - York English Language Toolkit 2024

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Episode 58 - Vaclav Brezina and the new Frequency Dictionary of British English

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Episode 57 - Lang in the News and Johanna Gerwin on MLE

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Episode 56 - Danielle Turton and dialect study

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Episode 55 - Christian Ilbury and online language

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Episode 54 - Florent Moncomble

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Episode 53 - Language Awareness at School with Tim Marr & Steve Collins

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Episode 52 - Migration discourses with Charlotte Taylor & Ana Gavalas

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Episode 51 - Emily M. Bender and 'AI' hype

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Episode 50 - Jess Aiston and Critical Discourse Analysis

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Episode 49 - Ife Thompson and Black British English

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Episode 48 - Frazer Heritage on representation of gender in videogames (and more)

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Episode 47 - Fiona McPherson of the OED and Words of the Year 2023

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Episode 46 - Paul Kerswill & MLE

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Episode 45 - Alex Baratta and accentism

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Episode 44 - Kingsley Ugwuanyi + Amanda Cole

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Episode 43 - language & gender special part 2

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Episode 42 - Deborah Cameron, language & gender special part 1

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Episode 41 - Johanna Gerwin and London English

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Episode 40 - York English Language Toolkit

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Episode 39: Dan Collen on weaponized laughter memes & Heddwen Newton on Lang in the News

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Episode 38 - Anna Islentyeva and the representation of masculinity in advertising

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Episode 37 - Heidi Colthup and the language of gaming

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Episode 36 - Claire Hardaker and forensic linguistics

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Episode 35 - an opinion articles special with Harriet Williamson

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Episode 34 - Arran Stibbe and ecolinguistics

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Episode 33 - Katy Brown and discourse analysis

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Episode 32 - Kate Barber and the language of misogyny in online communities

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Episode 31 - Danny Bate and the joys of etymology

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Episode 30 - Jessica Norledge and the Language of Dystopia

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Episode 29 - JPB Gerald

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Episode 28 - Kendra Calhoun

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Episode 27 - MLE in the Media special

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Episode 26 - Robert McKenzie and Speaking of Prejudice

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Episode 25 - the OED

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Episode 24 - Kamran Khan

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Episode 23 - Gareth Carrol

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Episode 22 - Katie Edwards

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Episode 21 - Robbie Love

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Episode 20 - Sandra Jansen

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Episode 19 - Elena Semino

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Episode 18 - Emma Byrne

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Episode 17 - Dr Amanda Cole

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Episode 16 Ffion Brown

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Episode 15 - Dana Gablasova

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Episode 14 - Emma Moore

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Episode 13 - Accent Special

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Episode 12 - Vanja Karanovic

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Episode 11 - Catherine Laing

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E10 Language, sexuality and identity special

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Episode 9 - Tony Thorne

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Episode 8 - Northern accent special

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Philip Seargeant - E7

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Kelly Wright - E6

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Ian Cushing - E5

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Shivonne Gates - E4

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Devyani Sharma - E3

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Rob Drummond - E2

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Language in the News - E1