Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language. · Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård
131: Words of the Week of the Year 2025 (live with friends)
·1 hr 32 min·5 clips
Why did the phrase 'six, seven' become a viral sensation, and what does it reveal about Generation Alpha's first cultural moment?
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Because Language turns a live end-of-year gathering into a brisk, playful look at how speakers judge words and sounds. It works by treating language as a shared puzzle instead of a lecture: the hosts vote, argue, compare notes across languages, and keep returning to the question…
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