There are so many interesting bits of language in the world, we can’t help but notice. The question is, when you notice someone saying something interesting, should you point it out?
In a criminal case, you just might need a linguist.
There's competitive forensics, but there's also forensic medicine, forensic accounting, and forensic linguistics too.
The word "deadpan" is on the rise, as multiple parts of speech. That "pan" is related to the historical expression “shut your pan."
Not all of us use the word 'whenever' in exactly the same way, and people are noticing.
It’s 100% true that people online are asking about sentences like, “I got an a hundred on the test.”
The way some people use "resonate" doesn't resonate with all of our listeners.
We can sweep the floor, sweep the board, sweep the stakes, sweep the series – and maybe it will even be called a "clean sweep."
While you may not find “comfortability” in many standard dictionaries yet, it is out there in circulation with “comfortableness.”
Sometimes we’re left in the lurch. It’s probably fair to say that most of us don’t know where that lurch is.
It appears that some of those bad or uneasy feelings we may feel in the pit of our stomach have become a pit in our stomach.
It's that time again. With 2024 behind us, we can vote on the word of the year.
We can pepper our food or pepper our speech. If the mood strikes us, we can be peppy in a pep rally sort of way.
There's examples all over the the place of people using "there's" before a plural noun. In fact, we just gave you one.
As 2024 comes to a close, the kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs football team gave us a reason to use the verb "doink."
We can still reach out the car window to grab a parking ticket, but today, "reaching out" can also mean "pinging" someone to make a connection.
The words "decimate" and "unique" are quintessential examples of how a word’s meaning can shift from its etymological roots.
"Ornery" seems like an ordinary enough word, but its link to "ordinary" might surprise people.
As listeners wait with bated breath, we will not dilly dally or shilly shally to get to this lightning round.
Looking at late 19th century language peeves can often point to a change in progress, but not always.
Of all the topics we could cover this week on That's What They Say, we chose these ones over those ones.
A sea change can now be caused by many things other than the sea, and some of its dramatic effects have been lost in the process.
We're going to try not to touch the third rail, but we are going to talk about it.
Major League Baseball playoffs and football tailgate season both mean the smell of hot dogs is in the air.
