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Bonus episode: Kelly 🔥 By Any Means 🔥 Wright is helping us answer questions! 😍
- Why can you have a TRIFECTA, but not any other number -FECTA?
- Why does a SEXTILLION (with a prefix meaning SIX) have seven chunks of zeros?
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Folks, there's a new video up on my YouTube channel from the Lehigh University Radical Love Symposium on Linguistic Justice & Loving the Voice (and/or why this is so difficult for most of us) ✊🏽🤓🔥

Enjoy! youtu.be/xZRe6MpYil0

Happy Black History Month!!!!!!!!! ✊🏾🤓🔥 Dr. Martin & I are on the road this spring discussing this paper, so watch this space (and please invite us to yours)!

Let’s face it this is basically my bible

Folks, I am so excited to share that my first in studio interview will air this Sunday! I can't imagine that anyone has anything more entertaining to watch on the 11th, so please tune in! And please share with every human you know ✊🏾🤩🔥

It sure is! Read more about linguistic profiling in voice-only contexts here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/24/article…

Language-based compliments typically operate as language-based microaggressions. For example:

'You're so articulate'
'You don't have an accent'
'You don't sound like your race'

If 'the Holocaust began with WORDS' (dixit UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳) do you think that LINGUISTS can contribute anything to 'education [that] can play a key role in preventing genocide'? If so, what? If no, why not? If you're a linguist, please, PLEASE, chime in. Your input will be so appreciated

Hi, Folks! The new installment of American Dialect Society Among The New Words is out & available for free to anyone by Duke University Press. A big shout out to Charles Carson for the exquisite, multimedia supplement & to Jaidan McLean for the <rizz> entry!!! Read it here: doi.org/10.1215/000312…

I'm really excited to announce a new paper with Brian Morin published in @PlosOne yesterday!

The semantics, sociolinguistics, and origins of double modals in American English: New insights from social media

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