Listen on buzzsprout Send a text Carrie and Megan talk about the American Dialect Society's Word of the Year. TACO Support the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on Transcript Carrie: Hi, and welcome to The Vocal Fries Podcast, the … Continue reading WOTY 2025
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Scary Words for a Scary World
Listen on buzzsprout Send a text Carrie and Megan talk about random words that are scary or scary-adjacent. facsism eldritch ghost vampire Support the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on Transcript Carrie Gillon: Hi, and welcome to The Vocal … Continue reading Scary Words for a Scary World
Algospeak
Listen on buzzsprout Send a text Carrie and Megan talk with Adam Aleksic about his new book, Algospeak: How Social Media is Transforming the Future of Language. Bromism and ChatGPT Support the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on Transcript … Continue reading Algospeak
A history of like
[Listen on buzzsprout] Send us a text Carrie and Megan talk with Megan C. Reynolds, Dwell magazine editor, about her book, Like: A History of the World's Most Hated (and Misunderstood) Word. Putin and Russian Support the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep … Continue reading A history of like
The Italian N-Word
[Listen on buzzsprout] Megan Figueroa: Hi, and welcome to the Vocal Friars Podcast, the podcast about linguistic discrimination. Carrie Gillon: I'm Carrie Gillon. Megan: And I'm Megan Figueroa. Oh, Carrie, are we supposed to be enemies now? Carrie: Yeah. Well, as far as I can tell, yes, we are in the beginning of a trade … Continue reading The Italian N-Word
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