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The Vocal Fries

The monthly podcast about linguistic discrimination. Learn about how we judge other people’s speech as a sneaky way to be racist, sexist, classist, etc. Carrie and Megan teach you how to stop being an accidental jerk. Support this podcast at www.patreon.com/vocalfriespod

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Like, Literally, Dude May 15, 2023

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Megan and Carrie talk with Dr Valerie Fridland about her new book, Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English, how to pronounce Nevada, and all things language.

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Figgy, Gills and Bobby Apr 17, 2023

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Dr. Bob Kennedy is back! Carrie and Megan pick his brain about all things language in sports.
He shoots, he scores!
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Don't be an *, be a 🐈 Mar 13, 2023

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Megan and Carrie talk with Rachel E. Gross about her book, Vagina Obscura, and the language we use to describe pregnancy, vaginas, cervixes, etc.
Whale vocal fry:

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The People's Tongue Feb 13, 2023

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Carrie and Megan talk to Dr Ilan Stavans about his new book, The People's Tongue: Americans and the English Language.

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The Freeze Peach Paradox Jan 30, 2023

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Megan and Carrie talk to Dr. Dennis Baron, Emeritus Professor of English at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, about his newest book You Can't Always Say What You Want: The Paradox of Free Speech.

What do moos mean?

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Dr G Squared Dec 12, 2022

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Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Geneva Smitherman/Dr. G about her book My Soul Look Back In Wonder, narrative essays about her race, gender, class, and linguistic consciousness as a member of the Black Power Generation of the 1960s and 70s.
Quebec economic immigrants

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Bonus WOTY 2022 Dec 08, 2022

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Example bonus episode from November 2022.
We talk WOTY22!
Full episode coming soon

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Brasse pa lamèrd Nov 07, 2022

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Megan and Carrie talk with Jonathan "radbwa faroush" Myers and Adrien Guillory-Chatman, members of the first Wikitongues cohort, about Kouri-Vini, aka Louisiana Creole, a French Creole spoken mainly in Louisiana.
Collins' WOTY22
A discussion of Ukrainian to English transliteration
Dictionary.com's new words
Learn Kouri-Vini

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Cruz Control Oct 17, 2022

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Carrie and Megan talk with Maureen Kosse, linguistics PhD student at University of Colorado Boulder, about her paper "Ted Cruz Cucks Again", the origins and meaning of "cuck", white supremacy, antisemitism, and the alt-right.
Check out The Story of Woman podcast Carrie mentions in the intro

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Evil Sorting Hat of Whiteness Sep 19, 2022

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Megan and Carrie talk with Dr JPB Gerald, host of Unstandardized English, a podcast about language teaching, race, and whiteness, about his new book Antisocial Language Teaching: English and the Pervasive Pathology of Whiteness.
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