Join us for a free workshop that also celebrates the launch of Alex D. Ketchum's new book How to Organize Inclusive Events & Conferences.

'Phobia' gets used for anything from a mild aversion to a debilitating anxiety response to various forms of bigotry. Deboki Chakravarti and Sam Jones of the podcast Tiny Matters join to consid...

Vancouverites, we're going to have a social meetup on Sunday 13 September. We'll meet at Grounds for Coffee on Commercial around noon, then

What do you call yourself if you're a part-time vegetarian? What petty linguistic things would you change? And what do you do if people gripe at you if you say that you are bi or pan? To answer these ...

Get in, winner: we're going on a field trip.

Anonymously Share the Story of Your Name I changed my name or plan to: I don’t want to or can’t change my name: As I’ve now told hundreds of trans and queer organizations via unso…

“Linguistics and language is such a good mechanism for being curious,” says Lauren Gawne , linguistics prof, author of the book Gesture , and cohost of the podcast Lingthusiasm. I'm in vacation...

Throughout the Draculae miniseries , about the Swedish and Icelandic translations of Dracula that played fast and loose with the original text, I've been wondering a couple of questions: why are co...

Behind-the-scenes on a new project: Lingthusiasm gets into zines! by Lingthusiasm on Patreon. Join Lingthusiasm's community for exclusive content and updates.

Throughout the Draculae miniseries , about the Swedish and Icelandic translations of Dracula that played fast and loose with the original text, I've been wondering a couple of questions: why are co...

"The word ‘suburbia’ sort of evokes a very fixed idea of a place that is identikit, that all suburbs are the same, that within the suburb everything is the same, that all people are the same, all expe...

"The word ‘suburbia’ sort of evokes a very fixed idea of a place that is identikit, that all suburbs are the same, that within the suburb everything is the same, that all people are the same, all expe...

You know what's an absolutely pesky kind of word to define in a dictionary? Colour names. A passel of lexicographers spent years - decades, even - trying different ways to describe colours in words fo...

A new project from award-winning journalist Connie Walker aims to create an archive of testimonies of abuse at residential schools before the accounts are destroyed in September 2027.

Pack your oxygen tank, we're going up to space. There’s a lot of etymology up there.