Lingthusiasm was featured in the New York Times’ list of 5 Podcasts for Word Nerds! And here’s print evidence that it happened. The show is often as much about social habits as it…| Gretchen McCulloch
This summer I spent time with Finnish, Spanish, Estonian, Dutch, Italian, Latin (unexpectedly!), and… well, okay, kind of all of them, at least in museum exhibit form. So I did what any linguist wo…| Gretchen McCulloch
In official research news, during the second quarter of 2024, the Crash Course Linguistics team published a case study on how the series came together, called Creating Inclusive Linguistics Communi…| Gretchen McCulloch
In the first three months of 2024, I attended the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in New York City — home, as always, of the American Dialect Society’s Word of the Year vo…| Gretchen McCulloch
What I did in 2023: a pretty typical year with some podcasting, some conferences, some book recs, some silly example sentences, and a move to bluesky… Continue reading 2023 Year in Review→| Gretchen McCulloch
What I did in the last quarter of 2023: 2 conferences, 2 Tom Scott videos, 3 novels, 7 years of Lingthusiasm, and a Shakespeare humour audiobook recorded| Gretchen McCulloch
My newsletter for August-September 2023: Etymology isn’t Destiny merch and an academic article about lingcomm| Gretchen McCulloch
In June and July, I headed to Lingstitute 2023, the LSA summer institute, at UMass Amherst. It was great to get to hang out with old friends and meet lots of new people While I was in Massachusetts, I dropped by the headquarters of Merriam Webster to say hi to the dictionaries and lexicographers! (In… Continue reading June-July 2023: Lingstitute and Merriam-Webster→| Gretchen McCulloch
This month, I announced that there’s going to be a Spanish-language edition of Because Internet coming at some point in 2024! Spanish has been the translation that people have requested from …| Gretchen McCulloch
In April, I made an account on bluesky and enjoyed some wordplay there, which is still (so far) going strong as a twitter replacement. The main episodes of Lingthusiasm these two months were Bringi…| Gretchen McCulloch
