Word of Mouth

A podcast by BBC Radio 4

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171 Episodes

  1. Talking to Computers

    Published: 2/22/2022
  2. John McWhorter on Language

    Published: 2/15/2022
  3. Dropping the Mic and Jumping the Shark: Where Do Modern Idioms Come From?

    Published: 2/8/2022
  4. Remembering Mother Tongues

    Published: 2/2/2022
  5. It's language, Jim, but not as we know it

    Published: 1/25/2022
  6. When Words Fail Us

    Published: 1/18/2022
  7. Words from World War I

    Published: 1/11/2022
  8. Digital body language: how to work online

    Published: 8/24/2021
  9. When people get your name wrong

    Published: 8/17/2021
  10. Accent Bias

    Published: 8/10/2021
  11. Cultish Language

    Published: 8/3/2021
  12. Medical English

    Published: 7/27/2021
  13. The Art of Inventing Languages

    Published: 7/20/2021
  14. Why is English so weird?

    Published: 7/15/2021
  15. The Shipping Forecast: Internet Fandom

    Published: 5/11/2021
  16. Speech and Language Therapy

    Published: 5/4/2021
  17. Coinages

    Published: 4/27/2021
  18. Romance Fraud

    Published: 4/20/2021
  19. Changing Names

    Published: 4/13/2021
  20. Alphabetical Order

    Published: 4/6/2021

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Series exploring the world of words and the ways in which we use them