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Do synonyms exist?
Kate Burridge & Peter Clarke
12 October 2016
Inside Language
| Streams, brooks, creeks, rivulets – they’re not quite the same thing, are they?
Podcasts
Noun, verb, adjective – or all three?
Kate Burridge & Peter Clarke
28 September 2016
Inside Language
|
Kate Burridge
and
Peter Clarke
discuss how and why we turn nouns into verbs into adjectives
Podcasts
No need to be possessive about apostrophes
Kate Burridge & Peter Clarke
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
Pardon our French
Kate Burridge & Peter Clarke
25 July 2016
Inside Language
|
Peter Clarke
and
Kate Burridge
look at those persistent expressions that reflect dead and dying attitudes
Podcasts
Me, myself and I
Kate Burridge & Peter Clarke
24 June 2016
Inside Language
| Why does the perpendicular pronoun cause us so much trouble?
Peter Clarke
talks to linguist
Kate Burridge
Podcasts
Untangling nots
Kate Burridge & Peter Clarke
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
The contronym conundrum
Kate Burridge & Peter Clarke
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
Colliding words
Kate Burridge & Peter Clarke
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
Popular pick
Kate Burridge & Peter Clarke
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
Bad language
Kate Burridge & Peter Clarke
17 January 2016
Inside Language
| Is swearing losing its cathartic effect?
Kate Burridge
talks to
Peter Clarke
about taboo words
Podcasts
On the slippery slope with rorters and fraudsters
Kate Burridge & Peter Clarke
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
Benedict Cumberbatch and the art of distance assimilation
Kate Burridge & Peter Clarke
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…