30: Mailbag of Raspberries (with Helen Zaltzman)
Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language. - A podcast by Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig SkirgÄrd
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Our Mailbag is once again full of questions, and podcasting luminary Helen Zaltzman is here to help us answer them! Why is the raspberry sound (PBTPBBBBT) not a speech sound in any language? Or is it? How can sounds in a language change so much over time? Am I BURNED OUT? Or BURNT OUT? Why are they called metaphysicians and not metaphysicists? What can we call something besides LAME? Why is AMPHI- so infrequently used in English?
