Do You Call In, Out, or Off Sick? How Kids Learn Language. Hexaboobiated.

Kerstin Cable, host of “The Fluent Show” shares her tips and enthusiasm for learning new languages.

The sounds of certain words make us think of things that are big or small, round or spiky, and the tendency is nearly universal. For example, people can often pick words that refer to something big or small even in languages they don’t speak. Here’s why.

“Strollout,” “Insurrection,” “Yassify,” and Other Words of the Year for 2021

Was that uncle who wiped the floor with you in a card game a cardsharp or a card shark? Also, we look at what it is about using “they” as a singular pronoun that makes it sometimes stand out and sometimes get overlooked.

I have a big metaphorical pile of questions from listeners in which the answers are too short to be a whole podcast segment, so today, I’m going to string them together and do a bunch of quick hits. We’ll talk about color idioms, formatting bullet points

Is “Milk and Cookies” One Thing or Two? A New Language Term: The Santaback. Shoedabakers.

Interview: Accomplished mystery writer Lori Rader-Day was drawn to the story of children who were evacuated to Agatha Christie’s vacation home during WWII, but having never written a historical novel before, she faced challenges.

When an American character unintentionally uses British words or phrases, that’s an anatopism. Also, using ellipses can be tricky