Word of Mouth

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Talking to Computers

Will machine translation ever be as good as human translation? How do services like Google...

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John McWhorter on Language

Michael Rosen is joined by John McWhorter, author and linguist at Columbia University, to talk...

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Dropping the Mic and Jumping the Shark: Where Do Modern Idioms Come From?

Some idioms feel like they've been with us forever. We're used to saying it's 'raining cats and...

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Remembering Mother Tongues

Michael Rosen asks Julie Sedivy about what happens when we lose our first language. Julie...

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Remembering Mother Tongues

Michael Rosen asks Julie Sedivy about what happens when we lose our first language. Julie...

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It's language, Jim, but not as we know it

Could aliens 'speak' in chemicals? Could they converse in electricity? Would they be able to hear...

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When Words Fail Us

Kathryn Mannix, author and palliative care specialist, joins Michael Rosen to think about those...

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Words from World War I

Doing your bit or shirking? Afflicted with ‘Belgian flush’? Don’t forget to BYOB. Lynda...

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Digital body language: how to work online

Michael Rosen gets advice from Erica Dhawan on the best ways to communicate on-screen, as people...

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When people get your name wrong

Michael Rosen on why personal names are so often mispronounced or misspelled, in conversation and...

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Accent Bias

Michael Rosen asks Professor Devyani Sharma about the latest research into accent bias in the UK....

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Cultish Language

Michael Rosen and Amanda Montell talk about the language used by cults that has permeated other,...

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Medical English

Michael Rosen asks Dr Sophie Harrison about the strange and special new language she had to learn...

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The Art of Inventing Languages

How does one go about inventing a language? David J. Peterson is the creator of the Dothraki...

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Why is English so weird?

Why do we say 'I climbed' not 'I clomb'? Why is there a 'p' in 'receipt' and not in 'deceit'? Why...

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Why is English so weird?

Why do we say 'I climbed' not 'I clomb'? Why is there a 'p' in 'receipt' and not in 'deceit'? Why...

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The Shipping Forecast: Internet Fandom

Gretchen McCulloch, Internet Linguist, author of Because Internet and the host of the...

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Speech and Language Therapy

Michael talks to speech and language therapists Fiona Gillies and Tara Millan-Brophy. Fiona has...

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Coinages

Michael talks to Ralph Keyes about some of the unusual circumstances in which words and phrases...

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Romance Fraud

Dr Elisabeth Carter talks to Michael about the language used by fraudsters who fake romantic...

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