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Alt: That clip from Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Do You Remember) that everyone posts today because it says "Do you remember/the 21st night of September?"

Alt: That clip from Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Do You Remember) that everyone posts today because it says "Do you remember/the 21st night of September?"

Podcast Episode · Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics · 16 February 2024 · 55min

When the SG2 collection arrived at PARADISEC, it consisted of approximately 150 cassette tapes carried from Papua New Guinea to Australia in two duffel bags. They had been gathered through a commun…

Why we enjoy works of art, and how repetition plays a central part in the pleasure we receive.Leonard Bernstein, in his famous Norton Lectures, extolled re

This is a transcript for Lingthusiasm episode ‘How (not) to kill a language - Interview with Sophia Smith Galer’. It’s been lightly edited for readability. Listen to the episode here or wherever you g...

Narratives about smaller languages often focus on the death and endangerment sides of the story. There's generally less on the social and political reasons why some languages are favoured at the expen

Both speech and music can involve making sounds using the human body, but they also have differences -- for example, music is generally more

"appliance, tool," from Old English -ol, -ul, -el, representing PIE *-lo- (see -ule). In… See origin and meaning of -el.

"put a belt or girdle around; encircle; bind with flexible material; invest with… See origin and meaning of gird.

"put a belt or girdle around; encircle; bind with flexible material; invest with… See origin and meaning of gird.

A vocabulary test across 15 European languages. Each screen shows ten words from one language and ten English meanings; pair them up. Click a word, then click its meaning.The ten words are the...

Infants use others' emotional expressions to make inferences about the world, for example by inferring candidate causes of their happiness or sadness. However, one emotion—surprise—is less clearly li...

An exhaustive guide to every Canadian novel ever written.

Lingthusiasm Episode 39: How to rebalance a lopsided conversation   Why do some conversations seem to flow really easily, while other times, it feels like you can’t get a word in edgewise, or that t...