30: Mailbag of Raspberries (with Helen Zaltzman) - a podcast by Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård

from 2021-06-14T04:00

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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?