The Vocal Fries
The Vocal Fries
The podcast about linguistic discrimination. Learn about how we judge other people's speech as a sneaky way to be racist, sexist, classist, etc. Carrie and Megan teach you how to stop being an accidental jerk. Support this podcast: <a href="https://anchor.fm/the-vocal-fries/support">https://anchor.fm/the-vocal-fries/support</a>
- 1 hour 4 minutesLanguage and Health in Action
Carrie and Megan talk with Drs Lynnette Arnold and Anna I. Corwin about their new co-edited book (with Jennifer R Guzmán and Emily Avera), Language and Health in Action (ebook), along with two authors in the same volume, Drs Stephanie Keeney Parks and Abby Mack about their chapters "Autism Diagnostics as White Public Space in US Clinics" and "In the Spirit, in the Flesh: Performative Language, Embodiment, and Sustaining Recovery in Appalachia".
- Code Switch episode on Trump's culty language
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20 April 2026, 7:00 am - 1 hour 6 minutesI see your True Color(s)
Carrie and Megan talk with Kory Stamper, about her newest book, True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color from Azure to Zinc Pink. Out March 31, 2026!
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30 March 2026, 7:00 am - 55 minutes 4 secondsStop Protecting Chomsky
Carrie and Megan talk about the Epstein emails and Chomsky's correspondence with him. Carrie swears more than usual.
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27 February 2026, 10:00 pm - 35 minutes 33 secondsWOTY2025
Carrie and Megan talk about the American Dialect Society's Word of the Year.
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19 January 2026, 8:00 am - 1 hour 8 minutesBy Hand
Carrie and Megan talk with Tim Brookes about his newest book, By Hand, about the importance of handwriting.
WOTY:
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15 December 2025, 8:00 am - 36 minutes 58 secondsTrapped in Makaton
Carrie and Megan talk about Makaton, an artificial sign-based system, particularly Sara Novič's article about it.
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28 November 2025, 11:00 pm - 30 minutes 21 secondsScary Words for a Scary World
Carrie and Megan talk about random words that are scary or scary-adjacent.
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31 October 2025, 2:00 am - 47 minutes 21 secondsPeven Stinker
We have a few things to say about Pinker.
- Part of the War on Science
- The Language Instinct
- Pinker on Race Realism
- Co-authored paper on overregularization
- The Open Letter to the LSA
- The article that Carrie was interviewed for, but not named, about the Open Letter
- Our episode on dogwhistling
- The Harper's Letter
- Guardian on his appearance on Aporia
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29 September 2025, 8:00 pm - 52 minutes 29 secondsAlgospeak
Carrie and Megan talk with Adam Aleksic about his new book, Algospeak: How Social Media is Transforming the Future of Language.
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11 August 2025, 7:00 am - 58 minutes 22 secondsA History of Like
Carrie and Megan talk with Megan C. Reynolds, Dwell magazine editor, about her book, Like: A History of the World's Most Hated (and Misunderstood) Word.
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14 July 2025, 7:00 am - 51 minutes 10 secondsServing Language Ideologies
Carrie and Megan talk with Paulette van der Voet and Martina Terrazzano, PhD students at the University of Umea, about their class called “Linguistics and the Eurovision Song Contest”.
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