Happy ! Did you know that ‘museum’ and ‘music’ are related words? We got into that in our video on Music, but we talked about the early history of museums in this Endnote: youtu.be/tbvvu2NDL-A

#museumloversday #etymology #video #wordnerd #linguistics #language #words #historicallinguistics #lingcomm #museum

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Happy ! We actually have an appropriate video, that covers the origins of life insurance: youtube.com/watch?v=ejaOKvarqk
It’s actually the third in a series about insurance and mathematics and coffee, if you’re looking for more!

#nationallifeinsuranceday #etymology #video #wordnerd #linguistics #language #words #historicallinguistics #lingcomm #insurance #math

Last updated 2 years ago

Happy ! Solidarity to those on strike and thank you to the unions fighting for workers’ rights. Here are some labour-related etymologies to celebrate: youtube.com/watch?v=9f2o__MMn8

#mayday #etymology #video #wordnerd #linguistics #language #words #historicallinguistics #lingcomm #labourday #laborday #union

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It’s ! You can trace the history of the superhero back to long before the comicbook characters we think of now – and we do that, while looking at related words, in our video on Avenger: youtube.com/watch?v=_ebdtmBqkI

#nationalsuperheroday #etymology #video #wordnerd #linguistics #language #words #historicallinguistics #lingcomm #superhero #avengers

Last updated 2 years ago

Happy ! Why not celebrate by making it Weird – with our video about the history of that word, and its connections to Fate, Shakespeare, and witches: youtube.com/watch?v=CYPoTrHTXV

#shakespeareday #etymology #video #wordnerd #linguistics #language #words #historicallinguistics #lingcomm #shakespeare #weird

Last updated 2 years ago

Happy ! To celebrate, here’s our video about the Food Web, and how it’s a better model for ecosystems than the food chain. We made it for our friend the @RvingNaturalist’s channel, and she has a lot more videos there about nature and ecology that you should check out! youtu.be/OxKvcA4NpaQ

#EarthDay #etymology #video #wordnerd #linguistics #language #words #historicallinguistics #lingcomm #foodweb #foodchain

Last updated 2 years ago

Hey, it’s ! Surprisingly, few of our etymological videos centre on big words, but we’ve done a couple of shorts about some bigger words, like Kenspeckle and Bedizened: youtu.be/rpFH70CPMWA

#bigwordday #etymology #video #wordnerd #linguistics #words #language #historicallinguistics #lingcomm #kenspeckle #bedizened

Last updated 2 years ago

Here’s Part 2 of our mega-episode about the oddities of English spelling. We go back to the Phoenician several times, and blame French a lot – and maybe, just maybe, help demystify some of the more annoyingly spelled English words. alliterative.net/podcast/2023/

#humanitiespodcasts #podcast #language #linguistics #lingcomm

Last updated 2 years ago

Excitement! Goodies from my most favoritest podcast, Because Language (@becauselangpod), have arrived in Spain.

Muchas gracias/eskerrik asko, Daniel!

#lingcomm #lingpodsrule

Last updated 2 years ago

Martin Konvička · @TeapotLinguist
175 followers · 44 posts · Server mastodon.social

After four great days, is over. It included my poster about and , a panel discussion about beyond the Anglosphere as well as many inspiring chats about linguistics communication.

I can’t wait for ! 🤩

#lingcomm23 #linguisticbirthdays #womeninlinguistics #lingcomm #lingcomm25

Last updated 2 years ago

Did you know Colette Feehan, winner of the ASA Science Communication Award for the Science of Voice Acting series on TikTok, will be on a panel?


scicomm.xyz/@superlinguo/10966

#acoustics #scicomm #lingcomm

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Lauren Gawne · @superlinguo
1078 followers · 38 posts · Server scicomm.xyz

The International Conference on Linguistics Communication () is back in February!

Schedule: lingcomm.org/conference/schedu (all-star lineup including plenaries from Anne Charity Hudley and @gretchenmcc)

Once again on Gather, withshort days to maximise timezone overlap 💜

Registration: lingcomm.org/conference/regist

Rego starts at $10USD, with waivers for people who can't make that, and the option to pay more to support fees for other participants (I love the community so much)

#lingcomm #LingComm23

Last updated 2 years ago