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The Vocal Fries — 162 episodes

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Title
1

A Good Day to Di-alect

2

Canuck is a Slur

3

Unlocking Justice

4

Why We Talk Funny

5

Language and Health in Action

6

I see your True Color(s)

7

Stop Protecting Chomsky

8

WOTY2025

9

By Hand

10

Trapped in Makaton

11

Scary Words for a Scary World

12

Peven Stinker

13

Algospeak

14

A History of Like

15

Serving Language Ideologies

16

Rare Tongues

17

The AI Con

18

Enough is Enuf

19

Language Oppression in Tibet

20

The Italian N-Word

21

matkunsh 7mar

22

Demystifying Language

23

Fear and Loathing in Politics and Academia

24

Performing the News

25

How Schools Make Race

26

Dogwhistles and Other Fig Leaves

27

Writing Beyond Writing

28

Language City

29

Uneffing the Binary

30

Gorsh! We All Have Accents

31

The Funnest Episode

32

Braillians

33

Linguistic Discrimination against Uyghurs in China

34

Werthwhile Language

35

Don't Drown the Cat

36

We All Country

37

Shuffling off This Mortal Coil

38

Talking Tamarra

39

Mental Fries/Vocal Floss

40

A Braille as Old as Time

41

Like, Literally, Dude

42

Figgy, Gills and Bobby

43

Don't be an *, be a 🐈

44

The People's Tongue

45

The Freeze Peach Paradox

46

Dr G Squared

47

Bonus WOTY 2022

48

Brasse pa lamèrd

49

Cruz Control

50

Evil Sorting Hat of Whiteness

51

The Duct Tape of Language

52

Bulls, apes, bats and chickens

53

The Rickford Files

54

Make Grammar Cool Again

55

Reawakening Pentlatch

56

John Mary Bill Sue

57

Tongues

58

FindingFive

59

Hyper Specific Genres We Love

60

Save the Saguaro 🌵

61

Myanmar? I Hardly Know Her!

62

Employing Linguistics

63

Chocolate City

64

Galicious

65

Mara Effin Wilson

66

All Your Meme Are Belong To Us

67

Everybody Wants to Rural the World

68

Snap, Crackle, K-Pop

69

The Language of Love

70

Me Myself and AI

71

Maintenance Baes

72

I Ain't Messing With You

73

Cult Classic

74

Accent-uate Your Performance

75

Hypocritical Oath

76

Bean Discourse

77

Jamaalapalooza

78

I Have So Many Questions

79

Standardized Language Ideology

80

Use People's Pronouns

81

The Moist Towelette of Podcasts

82

Abso-2020-lutely

83

Racists and Transphobes and Scaredy Cats, oh my

84

Trumped Up Masculinity

85

Sounds about White

86

Teach Your Children about Linguistic Discrimination

87

Dismantling White Supremacy

88

Third Time's the Charm

89

Creating Puentes

90

Reid between the Lines

91

Unconscious Bias Project

92

Chaos and Order

93

Read between the Vines

94

Bilingualism is. It just is.

95

Linguistic Injustice

96

What's in a Name?

97

Cheaper than Therapy

98

Wikitongues

99

Practice Makes Easier

100

Irish isn't Just Decorative

101

Living Languages

102

Between Iraq and a Hard Place

103

Putting the Antics in SemAntics

104

Be Good and Be Kind

105

The (In)Visibility of Disability

106

The Rhetoric of Xenophobia

107

Everybody Hertz

108

Your Language Sounds like it has a Drawbridge

109

To Be or Not to Be (Hamlet)

110

Megan Squared

111

Lal-apalooza

112

The Final Frontier

113

Word Slut

114

Choice is Good; Justice is Better

115

No hasi ko’i pendeu

116

Zom-be or Not Zom-be: That is the Question

117

Chatting about Chatino

118

Ha-has and Moonbeams and Yaks, Oh My!

119

Fools Rush In

120

Maaate, Don't Come the Raw Prawn with Me, Alright?

121

Water is Life

122

On the Basis of Voice

123

Beyoncé, Hoodies and Obama Linguistics

124

The Kids are Alright

125

Looking Like a Language, Sounding Like a Podcast

126

Bilingualism isn’t Just for White Kids

127

The Latino Threat Narrative

128

How Millennials are Destroying the Philly Accent

129

The Rock was the Rock before the Rock, b'y

130

Salt Fat Acid SHADE

131

Bat Signals

132

Todos/Todas/Todes

133

Neaux French Left Behind

134

Means Doesn’t Rhyme with New Orleans

135

Down the Shore

136

Keep Calm and Fry On

137

Ope, Just Gonna Sneak Right Past Ya and Grab the Ranch

138

Don't Mind the Gap

139

Patreon Bonus Episode Preview

140

Rock 'n' Rhotic

141

There Is No Try, There Is Only Du...olingo

142

Learning to Love Like

143

Calling London

144

Troublesome Terps

145

Don't Be An Accenthole

146

Literally Exploding with Nerd Rage

147

Black Lives Matter

148

Basque-ing in the European Sun

149

They/Them/Theirs

150

We're Ghana Talk English

151

Two Canadians, an Australian and an American walk into a Linguistics Conference...what is this, a crossover episode?

152

French (Canadian) Fries

153

Down in the Holler

154

ChicaNO? ChicanYES!

155

Borderlands/La frontera

156

Freaky Fryday

157

A Sirious Problem

158

On the Rez

159

Grammar Not-zi

160

Southern Fried

161

Foul-Mouthed Women

162

Uppity Women