30: Mailbag of Raspberries (with Helen Zaltzman)
Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.
English - June 14, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 62.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 65 ratingsSocial Sciences Science Education Language Learning language words linguistics Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Our Mailbag is once again full of questions, and podcasting luminary Helen Zaltzman is here to help us answer them!
Why is the raspberry sound (PBTPBBBBT) not a speech sound in any language? Or is it? How can sounds in a language change so much over time? Am I BURNED OUT? Or BURNT OUT? Why are they called metaphysicians and not metaphysicists? What can we call something besides LAME? Why is AMPHI- so infrequently used in English?