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Linguistics for your earhole

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Jun 17th, 2025
This is a list of podcasts that help you understand words, how we use them, and what our word choices say about us. Etymology, sociolinguistics, and grammar but in the original sense.

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    "A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne. "A fasc...

    Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne

    ScienceSocietyCultureNerd Culture

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    30 Ratings
    Two brilliant hosts talk about the way we use words.
    "The Spoken History of a Global Language"

    Kevin Stroud

    History

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    22 Ratings
    If you want to hear about history and etymology all rolled into one, this is the pod for you.
    "A Canadian (Ryan) and a Scot (Amy) talking about the words in the English language that fascina...

    Ryan Paulsen and Amy Hanlon

    EducationHistoryLinguistics

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    3 Ratings
    Always an interesting dive into a pair of words discussed by three friends; Ryan, Amy, and Roget. Keep an ear out for the PIE roots and books with incredibly long titles.
    "Welcome to our whimsical adventure of idioms and other turns of phrase. Each week, we delve int...

    Shauna Harrison, Dan Pugh

    HistoryEducationArtsBooks

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    5 Ratings
    Two word nerds have a great time talking about the history of phrases. A perfect companion to the Lexitecture podcast
    "The monthly podcast about linguistic discrimination. Learn about how we judge other people's sp...

    The Vocal Fries

    SocietyCultureScienceSocial SciencesEducationSocial JusticeLanguageLinguistics

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    5 Ratings
    Two very smart linguists talk to a wide variety of people about the various ways that people judge based on your language usage. Whether it is based on your accent, your word choice, or a way of speaking that is judged harsher for some (e.g. vo
    "Fun conversation with callers from all over about new words, old sayings, slang, family express...

    Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett. Produced by Stefanie Levine.

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    6 Ratings
    Every had a battle with a friend or family member about how a word is said, or wondered where grandma's phrase came from? If anyone knows, it is these two. Add in Jon's puzzle in the middle and you are bound to learn something and have a good t
    "Susie Dent and Gyles Brandreth invite you to enhance your vocabulary, uncover the hidden origin...

    Sony Music Entertainment

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    16 Ratings
    Susie knows where to find the history of most any word in the world, and Gyles will tell you a story about how he met someone famous that has something to do with that word. Safe for the whole family.
    "A podcast about linguistics, the science of language."

    Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård

    ScienceSocial SciencesEducationSocietyCulture

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    9 Ratings
    Daniel, Hedvig, and Ben cover the world of linguistics but understandable for the average lay person. Always a blast.
    "Aven & Marcie discuss etymology, history, literature, language, and cocktails, and the sometime...

    Marcie Sundaram & Aven McMaster

    HistorySocietyCultureDocumentaryArtsEducationBooks

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    6 Ratings
    Two brilliant hosts, cocktail enthusiasts, and wonderfully nerdy people (and married couple), Mark and Aven cover words, history, etymology, and sometimes misconceptions you might have picked up about how words were used in the ancient times. A
    "Adventures in language with Helen Zaltzman. TheAllusionist.org"

    Helen Zaltzman

    ArtsEducationHistoryPoetryLanguage

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    58 Ratings
    Helen Zaltzman choses a topic, researches it, brings in other cool people to talk about it, and always leaves you with a word of the day. A brilliant show that translates well into a live show.
    "A feed from the Slate podcast network featuring episodes with enlightening conversations, oppos...

    Slate Podcasts

    SocietyCultureNewsEducation
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    13 Ratings
    Miss hearing relatable linguistics with a focus on what's happening around us in language? Then this is the pod for you. Nicole and Ben bring you interesting language stories and a fun game to play along with at the end. They talk with interest
    "Words for Granted is a podcast that looks at how words change over time. Host Ray Belli uses li...

    Ray Belli

    Education

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    Ray Belli (Bell-eye for those who have listened to the show) is an amateur linguist in the original sense of the word. He does this for love of words. He covers various words and themes, their histories, and their uses today in a very understan
    "en clair is a podcast about forensic linguistics, literary detection, language mysteries, crypt...

    Dr Claire Hardaker

    Education

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    1 Rating
    Words, Crime, and solving mysteries with forensic linguistics. This is a true crime meets language nerd heaven. Always a good listen.
    "Australian English has many fascinating stories, interesting etymologies, and wonderfully weird...

    Macquarie Dictionary

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    "A podcast about language, language learning, and sociolinguistics from a polyglot's point of vi...

    Angelique Voices (Angelique Lazarus)

    EducationSociologyLanguage

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    3 Ratings
    "Canguro English presents a podcast about language for people learning languages."

    Canguro English

    Education

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    2 Ratings
    "Series exploring the world of words and the ways in which we use them"

    BBC Radio 4

    SocietyCulture
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    Michael Rosen of children's lit fame delves into the world of how we use words to understand our world. Hosted by guests hosts until Michael fully recovers from Corona, this podcast is always an interesting slice of our world in words.
    "Slavstvuyte is a podcast dedicated to exploring the fascinating world of Slavic languages. Join...

    Dina Stankovic

    EducationHistoryArtsLanguage

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    Dina does a wonderful job bringing Slavic languages to English speaking audiences. You won't learn to speak a Slavic language, but you will learn about the varieties of Slavic languages out there from the 50+ dialects of Slovenia to the 3 gener
    "A podcast seeking justice for the racially, linguistically, and neurologically minoritized. Hos...

    JPB Gerald

    Education

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    JPB Gerald does a great job of challenging the dominant narratives in academia and especially in linguistics. Along the lines of the Vocal Fries Podcast, this pod is a good antiracist podcast that works hard to break down the discrimination inh
    "Linguistics holds up a magnifying glass to society to allow us to see the beauty, rawness, and ...

    Anansa Benbow

    EducationSocietyCulture

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    Ever wanted to know some of the ins and outs of Black language? Want to hear it from someone who grew up speaking it and who's love for it shine through onto the pod? Then this is the pod for you. AAVE has rules and regularity that are rarely t
    "Why do we love some accents and hate others? Why do we talk differently in different situations...

    Sadie Ryan

    SocietyCultureEducationScience

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    Everything you wanted to know about accents and how we think about them but were afraid to ask. We make snap judgements about people's backgrounds and intelligence based on their accent, but that is all really misleading. Why do we do it? how c
    "Dispatches from a not so dead language. Hosted by Darach O'Séaghdha and The Irish For… @theiris...

    HeadStuff Podcasts

    SocietyCultureArtsBooksEducation

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    4 Ratings
    Darach and crew help people who don't speak a lick of Irish, learn about Irish, Irish words, Words from Irish, and words from Ireland. Proving that this language is far from dead, they discuss all sorts of things happening today in the Irish la

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