Words for Granted
Words for Granted is a podcast that looks at how words change over time. Each episode explores the evolution of a single word. Host Ray Belli uses language--more specifically, individual words--as a way of understanding history, culture, religion, and society.
- Website
- http://wordsforgranted.com
- Description
- Words for Granted is a podcast that looks at how words change over time. Host Ray Belli uses language--more specifically, individual words--as a way of making connections among history, culture, religion, and society.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-12-28 20:33
- last episode published
- 2024-01-02 02:02
- publication frequency
- 20.76 days
- Contributors
- Ray Belli
- Author
- Raymond Belli
- Owner
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 134
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- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture Education Language Courses History
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-01-02 | In this episode, Ray chats with Mignon Fogerty, aka the Grammar Girl. "Good grammar" may seem like the epitome of prescriptivism, but when it comes to her "Quick and Dirty Tips", Mignon leans on a more ideologically neutral approach. Might you even cal... | |
| 2023-07-08 |
The Marvels of Translation: Interview with Keith Khan-Harris What can we learn about the nature of translation by reading a warning message in hundreds of different languages? In this episode, Keith Kahn-Harris discusses his latest book, The Babel Message, in which the mundane, multilingual warning message found... |
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| 2023-05-20 |
The Power (and Omnipresence) of Rhetoric: Interview with Guy Doza Rhetoric has a bad reputation. We tend to think of it as a linguistic tool used by polticians and marketing execs to maipulate the masses. While this stereotype is true, rhetoric is more than just snake oil––we use it in apologies, negotions, and love ... |
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| 2023-04-27 | Instead of criticizing deviations from Standard English as "wrong," what if we celebrated them as expressive lingusitic innovations? In this conversation with Valerie, we take a look at some of the quirky features of English that our language teachers ... | |
| 2023-03-19 | What goes into building a language learning curriculum? How do designers choose features within a language learing app? Are some approaches to language learning better than others, or is it up to the indiviudal? In this episode, I explore these questio... | |
| 2023-01-22 |
Combatting Bias in Linguistic AI: Interview with Courtney Napoles As Lead of Language Research at Grammarly, Courtney Napoles is building systems to better help people from around the world communicate. In this episode, we discuss things such as the fundamentals of linguistic machine learning and how AI learns lingui... |
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| 2022-12-20 | Place names are not random––behind the name of every country is a story of how it came to be. From stories of invasion and rebellion to the fantastical and mundane, in his latest book, author Duncan Madden takes us on a journey across the world in his ... | |
| 2022-11-07 | In this interview with linguist Danny Bate, we go deep on all things gender––grammatical gender, that is. Why do some languages have gender while others don't? Where does gender come from? What is the function of gender? To get 50% off your first mon... | |
| 2022-09-14 | Trivia refers to obscure or useless information, but this definition is a far cry from the word's etymology. Trivia, or tri-via, literally means "three roads," and in Ancient Roman times, it referred to three-way intersections. These heavily trafficked... | |
| 2022-08-02 | In this episode, I speak with Tracey Weldon, linguist and board advisor on the Oxford Dictionary of African American English project. We discuss the origins of AAE, the role of code switching within its speech community, AAE's contributions to mainstre... |