Podcasts
12 October 2016
Inside Language | Streams, brooks, creeks, rivulets – they’re not quite the same thing, are they?
Podcasts
28 September 2016
Inside Language | Kate Burridge and Peter Clarke discuss how and why we turn nouns into verbs into adjectives
Podcasts
14 September 2016
Inside Language | The little dot with the tail – where did it come from and where is it going? Peter Clarke talks to linguist Kate Burridge
Podcasts
25 July 2016
Inside Language | Peter Clarke and Kate Burridge look at those persistent expressions that reflect dead and dying attitudes
Podcasts
24 June 2016
Inside Language | Why does the perpendicular pronoun cause us so much trouble? Peter Clarke talks to linguist Kate Burridge
Podcasts
8 April 2016
Inside Language | It’s long been one of the sharper words in the language, but does it still pack a punch? Kate Burridge talks to Peter Clarke
Podcasts
28 March 2016
Inside Language | A surprising number of English words have completely different meanings in different contexts. Linguist Kate Burridge discusses why with Peter Clarke
Podcasts
12 February 2016
Inside Language | Disinterested or uninterested? Honing in or homing in? Kate Burridge and Peter Clarke look at the shades of meaning that might have had their day
Podcasts
5 February 2016
Inside Language | Following the release of the people’s choice for Word of the Year, Kate Burridge and Peter Clarke look at the words that came on…
Podcasts
17 January 2016
Inside Language | Is swearing losing its cathartic effect? Kate Burridge talks to Peter Clarke about taboo words
Podcasts
8 January 2016
Inside Language | Linguist Kate Burridge talks to Peter Clarke about how a jolly old time became the province of fraudsters and other dubious characters
Podcasts
7 January 2016
Inside Language | In the first in a new podcast series, linguist Kate Burridge talks to Peter Clarke about how we merge and lose sounds in spoken…