358: Mailbag of Mallets - a podcast by Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård
from 2019-04-04T04:00
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Again we tackle the questions that others dast not.
Why do all children know the 'nyah nyah' song?
What is the Trans-Atlantic accent?
Do Chinese characters stay readable longer than English words?
Who says they feel "less than"?
When a computer menu says "Save", is that an imperative or an infinitive?
Why does the word for "night" look like an "n" plus the word for "eight" in so many languages?
And more.
Further episodes of Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.
Further podcasts by Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård