In a dialectical episode of The Language Files (previously) written by Gretchen McCulloch of Lingthusiasm, host Tom Scott explains why William Shakespeare could never have…
In a vocal episode of The Language Files (previously), host Tom Scott explains what a schwa sounds like in the English language and how it…
In a breathless episode of The Language Files (previously), host Tom Scott explains why humans gesture with their hands while speaking. Linguists who study these…
In his newly rebooted series Language Files the impressively linguistically educated Tom Scott talks about phatic expressions – those brief, conversational responses used in everyday…
In an uncial episode of The Language Files (previously), host Tom Scott takes an interactive look at the International Phonetic Alphabet Chart. Scott explains how…
In the final episode of the Language Files, host Tom Scott–with help from linguist Gretchen McCulloch–addresses the changing nature of the English language and how…