336: Kinship Terms - a podcast by Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård

Kinship terms. How do languages handle the vocabulary of family relations? What's a third cousin, and what's 'removed'? In the News: Two Philadelphia students have compiled a glossary of slang for their teachers. Words of the Week: man-child, au pair state, artisanal data.

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Further podcasts by Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård

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