Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics

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121: Vampires, ghosts, imposters and more linguistic monsters

October 15, 2026

Vampires, werewolves, witches, ghosts, zombies, imposters, and frankenstein have something in common: they're all possessed by the spirit of linguistics! In this silly spooky episode, your hosts Lauren Gawne and Gretchen McCulloch get enthusiastic about various kinds of linguistic monsters. We talk about how vampires would make the best historical linguists, the ghosts of borrowed words and old grammar haunting our modern vocabulary, why Your Honour can enjoy dressing up as a grammatical im...

120: How (not) to kill a language - Interview with Sophia Smith Galer

September 18, 2026

Narratives about smaller languages often focus on the death and endangerment sides of the story. There's generally less on the social and political reasons why some languages are favoured at the expense of others, and how community members are working on reconnecting with their languages. In this episode, your host Gretchen McCulloch gets enthusiastic with Sophia Smith Galer about her new book, How to Kill a Language. We talk about Sophia's personal experience with Italian dialect from her ...

119: Irregularity is all over the place

August 21, 2026

Talk, talked. Walk, walked. Go...went? In this episode, your hosts Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne get enthusiastic about the many ways that languages are irregular in their patterns! We talk about sound and spelling irregularity, word irregularity and euphemisms, grammatical irregularity and fossils of older systems, and how irregularity is perhaps the most regular thing about languages. We also talk about those parts of systems that seem to be magnets for attracting irregularity, like...

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Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics typically books rising experts. Typical guest background: Linguists, psycholinguists, language researchers, authors, journalists, and public-facing experts with specialized knowledge of language, communication, or language communities. Common among recent guests: Published books for general audiences; Academic research or specialized expertise in linguistics; Journalism or public education about language. Recent guests include Sophia Smith Galer and Julie Sedivy.

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Recent episodes cover Science, Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, and Language Preservation. Pitch an idea tied to one of these topics and mention a recent episode.