Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård

A podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

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Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

Episodes (100)

Tuesday 132: WotY 2025, the Final Word (with Kelly Wright)
Dec 20, 2025 131: Words of the Week of the Year 2025 (live with friends)
Dec 6, 2025 130: Back to the FTR (with Séan Roberts, Cole Robertson, and Annemarie Verkerk)

Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

Feb 17, 2026
1 hours
82 MB

We're talking to Dr Kelly Wright, friend of the show and data czar for the American Dialect Society. They run the biggest and most prestigious Word of the Year event, and she was there when the 2025 WotY votes came in. She's talking us through all the words we missed. Plus we get to some listener feedback. Timestamps Start: 0:00 Intros: 0:41 The ADS WotYs for 2025: 7:12 Related or Not: 1:00:51 Listener comments: 1:09:53 The Reads: 1:20:28 Outtakes: 1:27:01 Video version of this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXpfrXdWEW8

Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

132: WotY 2025, the Final Word (with Kelly Wright)

Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård

00:00 -01:29:40