53: Mailbag of Compounds (with Tiger Webb) - a podcast by Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård
from 2022-05-31T04:00
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Language titan Tiger Webb is helping us with our voluminous Mailbag.
Hedvig is giving her annual Eurovision language roundup.
And we’re sorting through the lexicon of the 2022 Australian election.
- Is MAYBE a compound word? What about ANOTHER, or GARBAGE?
- Are GONNA and WANNA portmanteaus?
- What does it take to be a linguist?
Further episodes of Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.
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