Podcast appearances and mentions of David Crystal

Ray is joined by David Crystal, Professor of Linguistics and Author of the book 'Spell It Out: The Singular Story of English Spelling'

It is 1000 days since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine and senior Republican on the Armed Forces Committee in the US Senate, Roger Wicker, has welcomed the decision by President Biden to allow Ukraine to use long-range missiles against Russia, but argues that it should have come sooner. He tells Newshour: "The best way to combat the illegal breach of international law is to be strong".Also in the programme: Ukraine's former national security adviser on what his country can expect from a new Trump presidency, and linguistics professor David Crystal on what England's King Richard III sounded like.(Photo: US Republican Senator of Mississippi Roger Wicker. Credit: Michael Reynolds/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

In this special episode, Professor David Crystal OBE, one of the world's leading linguists with over 100 books to his name and a global reputation as a writer and lecturer on Early Modern English, talks to Sebastian Michael about Original Pronunciation (OP) – the way William Shakespeare and his contemporaries would have pronounced English at the time, and how this changes our understanding of Shakespeare's works generally, and specifically the sonnets.

Podcast regular David Crystal is back on "In a Manner of Speaking" to discuss his new website, TraceThatPlace.com, which allows users to explore the story and sound of place names on the road signs and railway stations of Britain." Visit the September 2024 podcast page at PaulMeier.com/In-a-Manner-of-Speaking for more information.

Linguistics - the scientific study of language - is our topic for today. Chris Smith learns about the potential origins of human language with David Crystal, and how we assimilate vocal sounds into sentence structures with the University of Cambridge's Mirjana Boziv. Then, a fascinating finding about the way apes layer their communication is described by Adriano Lameira, before Cambridge's Regina Karousou Fokas gives Chris a lesson in Greek... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

In the play, The Merry Wives of Windsor, as well as Hamlet and Richard III, the phrase “declension of pronouns” that comes up as a description of language. That's not a phrase that I remember being taught in English class, and instead relates to Latin, the language of education for Shakespeare's lifetime, and indeed across Europe. Here today to explain for us exactly what a “declension” might be, how to use them, and what it helps to understand about things like nouns, pronouns, and spelling for 16th century English when you explore Shakespeare's plays, is our friend, and returning guest here to That Shakespeare Life, Professor David Crystal Get bonus episodes on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Will Tingle took on this linguistic query from listener Satya with the help of David Crystal... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

For this first podcast of 2024, father and son authors David Crystal and Ben Crystal share their (many!) favorite quotations they've collected in their handy and handsome book, Everyday Shakespeare: Lines for Life. The two Crystals reveal they combined their perspectives as practitioner and linguist, and share how they've explored the corners of the canon and found gold; the satisfaction of breakfast-time rituals; how words and their meanings – and their pronunciations! – have changed over the centuries; and the wonder of discovering the diversity of Shakespeare's voices and characters. (Length 20:05)

Nghe trọn sách nói Câu Chuyện Ngôn Ngữ trên ứng dụng Fonos: https://fonos.link/PodcastFonos--Về Fonos:Fonos là Ứng dụng âm thanh số - Với hơn 13.000 nội dung gồm Sách nói có bản quyền, Podcast, Ebook, Tóm tắt sách, Thiền định, Truyện ngủ, Nhạc chủ đề, Truyện thiếu nhi. Bạn có thể nghe miễn phí chương 1 của tất cả sách nói trên Fonos. Tải app để trải nghiệm ngay!--“Crystal tóm gọn một cách mượt mà lượng kiến thức lớn của ông về những điểm dị biệt trong cách đánh vần, ngữ pháp, chính tả, và ảnh hưởng của những phong cách ngôn ngữ mới (ngôn ngữ máy tính, tin nhắn) đối với sự phát triển của ngôn ngữ. Đây là cuốn sách nhập môn hoàn hảo cho bất kỳ ai hứng thú với chủ đề này.” – Publishers WeeklyLà phương cách giao tiếp chính của loài người, ngôn ngữ là một phần vô cùng phong phú và đa dạng trong đời sống của chúng ta. Có khoảng 6.000 ngôn ngữ trên thế giới, tuy rất nhiều trong số đó cũng đang biến mất nhanh chóng. Những ngôn ngữ vẫn được sử dụng thì mỗi ngày đều thay da đổi thịt, đến mức các thế hệ sống trong cùng một mái nhà có thể nói năng theo những cách rất khác nhau. Nắm bắt được sự phức tạp tinh tế của ngôn ngữ luôn hiện hữu quanh mình cũng đòi hỏi nhiều tâm sức hơn bạn tưởng, nhưng Câu chuyện ngôn ngữ của David Crystal có thể dẫn dắt bạn vào hành trình tìm hiểu này theo cách đơn giản và gợi mở nhiều hứng thú nhất.Đi từ những tiếng bập bẹ đầu tiên của một em bé cho đến sự phát triển của ngôn ngữ mạng trong những năm gần đây, 40 chương sách sẽ giúp bạn tìm hiểu từng khía cạnh đóng góp vào cái mà ta gọi là “ngôn ngữ”. Khi theo chân từng bước phát triển của ngôn ngữ, cả nói riêng trong đời một cá nhân lẫn nói chung theo chiều dài lịch sử văn minh loài người, với những ví dụ sinh động và rõ ràng, người đọc dù nói thứ tiếng nào đi nữa cũng không thể thờ ơ với câu chuyện cuốn hút về ngôn ngữ trong cuốn sách này.© 2010 by David CrystalOriginally published by Yale University Press--Tìm hiểu thêm về Fonos: https://fonos.vn/Theo dõi Facebook Fonos: https://www.facebook.com/fonosvietnam/

Ben Crystal and David Crystal – authors of multiple works, including Shakespeare's Words and The Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary – discuss their new book Everyday Shakespeare: Lines For Life, a collection of overlooked gems plucked from the canon, organized by monthly themes, and suitable for many situations and every reader. The Crystals share how they selected each quote (and how they wanted to avoid the famous ones); how when you pan for Shakespeare gold you find more than you expect; how their unique approaches to Shakespeare reflect their approaches to life; the variety of places they plant their geek flags; the wonderful realization that the more you dig into the words, the more the author recedes; and the surprising beauty of getting hit in the heart rather than the head. (Length 26:41)

If you've ever said “it's Greek to me” or “the world is my oyster", met “star-crossed lovers” or been dragged into a “wild goose chase”, if you've ever waited with “bated breath” or wanted to “melt into thin air”, then you were living in the words of Shakespeare.In many ways, we all live in the world that he created. Today's guests are a father and son duo who have collectively authored dozens of books on Shakespeare. Their new book Everyday Shakespeare:Lines For Life is a daily selection of Shakespearean phrases from different plays. David Crystal is a writer and linguist. He has written or edited over 100 books, currently serves as Honorary Professor of Linguistics at Bangor University, and is an expert in the original pronunciation of Shakespeare's writings. He was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1995 by the late Queen Elizabeth II.His son Ben Crystal is an author, actor, and producer, best known for performing, of course, the works of Shakespeare.Click  here to buy the book Everyday Shakespeare: Lines for Life by Ben and David Crystal.

The September 2023 episode of "In a Manner of Speaking" features a trip through time:  a conversation between Paul and renowned linguist David Crystal about the history of the English language. David traces the development of English from the Roman occupation of Britain to the spread of Modern English around the world. Visit the podcast page at PaulMeier.com/In-a-Manner-of-Speaking for extra free content.

Michael Rosen talks to Ben and David Crystal about the Shakespeare quotes we use every day, without even realising. We've all heard someone roll their eyes and say “the lady doth protest too much, me thinks” - or head back to their desk muttering “once more unto the breach!” Shakespeare had a way with words that makes his writing extremely relatable, even today. Ben and David Crystal tell Michael why so many of the bard's sayings have slipped into our everyday chat. Producer: Alice McKee, BBC Audio Bristol

Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's The Verb from the Trades Club in Hebden Bridge, North Yorkshire. He's joined by poet Clare Shaw whose poetry extols the poetic possibilities of peat bogs and moss; Ben and David Crystal whose new book Everyday Shakespeare offers us a quotation from the bard for every day of the year; Jimmy Andrex offers a meeting place between music and poetry and singer Emily Portman and musician Rob Harbron sing the words of Irish poet Louis MacNeice

A paella with no smile; 20 years of iTunes; Life after football; Tucker Carlson and Fox News; What gives a speaker credibility; The Media Pundit; How to stop people following you; An interview with David Crystal; Music from Rob Corcoran and the Necessary Evils

This episode features David & Crystal Ballard- they were kind enough to come and share about their family life. David is not only in the Military but also a police officer, Crystal shares how his job choices impact their family and how they work together to get through difficult times and times of separation. Both David and Crystal were very honest and vulnerable during our conversation about the things that have worked well and thing they have struggled with.

This week on Speak The Speech, we are joined by actor, author and creative producer, Ben Crystal. Ben performs a speech from The Winter's Tale and shares his knowledge of received and original pronunciation in Shakespeare's works. He also talks about Shakespearean rehearsal and production practices, examines the evolution of Shakespeare's verse over his career, and discusses the process of creating his acclaimed co-authorship of Shakespeare's Words.   Ben Crystal is an actor, author and creative producer, and explorer of original practices in Shakespeare rehearsal and production. He is the co-author of Shakespeare's Words, The Shakespeare Miscellany and An Illustrated Dictionary of Shakespeare. He also wrote the Springboard Shakespeare series for Arden, and his first solo book, Shakespeare on Toast was shortlisted for the Educational Writer of the Year Award. From 2014 to 2016 he was invited with his father, David Crystal, to explore original pronunciation (OP) in the newly finished Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare's Globe.   He is a special advisor to the Shakespeare North Playhouse, a patron of Shakespeare Week and the founder of the international Shakespeare Ensemble, which makes full-scale productions in 5 days or less. He's travelled the world teaching and performing Shakespeare, and has delivered speeches for the British Council, TEDx, and universities worldwide. 

For the September 2022 episode of "In a Manner of Speaking," Paul welcomes back renowned linguist and author David Crystal for his fourth appearance on the podcast. They discuss various topics related to David's 2018 book, "Sounds Appealing," including pronunciation, phonetics, phoneticians, speech melody, intonation, stress patterning. For information on David, visit his website, DavidCrystal.com. And for more info (and lots of complementary content) on the topics discussed in this and all of Paul's podcasts, please visit the main podcast page at PaulMeier.com/in-a-manner-of-speaking.

Please consider supporting Human Voices Wake us by clicking here: https://anchor.fm/humanvoiceswakeus/support Tonight I go over Shakespeare's “To be or not to be” soliloquy from Act 3 scene 1 of Hamlet. Throughout the episode I include the performance of this speech from modern actors: the first is by Paapa Essiedu, and the second by Andrew Scott. The very last, to give a sense of what the original pronunciation of the speech would have sounded like, is performed by Ben Crystal. A larger compilation of nine different versions can be found here, and a YouTube search provides even more. The books read from in this episode are Ben and David Crystal's Shakespeare's Words: A Glossary and Language Companion, Marjorie Garber's Shakespeare After All, and Peter Ackroyd's Shakespeare: The Biography. Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/humanvoiceswakeus/support

Our guest in this episode of Language Chats is Sydney-based writer, editor, producer and scholar Sheila Ngọc Phạm who has worked across radio, print, online and film. Languages are a big part of Sheila's life, as a bilingual English/Vietnamese Australian whose interest in language led her to study linguistics and learn a number of other languages through her travels and experiences in life so far. We chat about her linguistic background as the child of Vietnamese parents growing up in Sydney, her love and enjoyment of language, her work on two particular podcast series (Tongue Tied and Fluent on ABC Radio National and My Bilingual Family on SBS) which focus on language in Australia, the challenges for those trying to raise children bilingually, multilingualism in Australia, and more. Sheila is also a member of our community on Facebook, Language Lovers AU Community - join us there too if you'd like to be a part of the conversation and connect with other like-minded language lovers! We loved this chat (and could have spoken with Sheila for hours!) so we hope you enjoy it. Contact us here to let us know your thoughts about this episode or if you have any questions for us or Sheila. Episode Links Find out more about Sheila on her website here / Twitter: @birdpham Tongue Tied and Fluent podcast (ABC Radio National), produced by Masako Fukui and Sheila Ngoc Pham My Bilingual Family podcast (SBS), produced by Masako Fukui and Sheila Ngoc Pham Some of Sheila's writing on multilingualism: Bringing up a bilingual child is hard work. But passing on your mother language is a gift beyond words by Sheila Ngọc Phạm for Tongue Tied and Fluent on Earshot (ABC Radio National) Five common myths about raising bilingual children by Sheila Ngoc Pham, Masako Fukui Language Death by David Crystal

It seems to be human nature that the more money you have in your wallet, the more likely you are to spend it. And it also turns out that what kind of money is in your wallet influences how much you spend as well. Listen as this episode begins with some interesting psychology that will help you spend less so you keep more of your money. http://www.forbes.com/video/4061993829001/ I bet you have had someone design a logo or brochure or website for you and then when they show you what they did, they ask, “What do you think”? It has happened to me several times and the problem is, I don't know what to think. I don't know what makes a well-designed brochure or website. I don't know what other people will think when they see it or what motivates people to respond. If this has happened to you, you'll want to hear my guest Susan Weinschenk. Susan has a Ph.D. in Psychology, she is the Chief Behavioral Scientist and CEO at The Team W, Inc. (https://theteamw.com/) as well as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Wisconsin. She is also author of the book 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (https://amzn.to/323kNKK).  Think about how many times a day you speak to other people. Conversation is the primary way we communicate. Yet, you likely haven't learned much about the science of conversation. The fact is that a conversation can beautiful and brilliant or it can be awkward and difficult. When you understand how it all work, you will be a better conversationalist. Joining me to explain the science of conversation is David Crystal. David is a writer and editor, and his latest book is called Let's Talk: How English Conversation Works (https://amzn.to/32e4qLF). When your doctor takes your blood pressure – does he check both arms? He or she should check both because the results are likely different. Listen as I explain why this is so important. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120320195749.htm PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS! Indeed' is doing something no other job site has done. Now with Indeed, businesses only pay for quality applications matching the sponsored job description! Visit https://Indeed.com/SOMETHING to start hiring now. Hometap is the smart new way to access your home's equity and pay for life's expenses without a loan! Learn more and get a personalized estimate at https://HomeTap.com With Avast One, https://avast.com you can confidently take control of your online world without worrying about viruses, phishing attacks, ransomware, hacking attempts, & other cybercrimes! The magic is waiting! Download Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells, for free, from the iOS App Store or Google Play today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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In our longest ever episode, we ask English language teaching legends Diedrick Van Gorp, Debbie Hepplewhite, Stephen Krashen, Vivian Cook, David Crystal, Jack Richards, Hugh Dellar, Penny Ur , Alan Maley and David Weller about their influences and what they learned from them.For more podcasts, videos and blogs, visit our website Support the podcast – buy us a coffee!Develop yourself! Find more about our teacher training courses Watch as well as listen on our YouTube channel

Today we're headed back to the long-ago days of 1988 with Donnie Darko! Join us as we learn about book banning, electric hand dryers, teen cocaine use, "cellar door", and more! Sources: Banned Books: Leonard Kniffel, "The Dangerous Modern Library List," American Libraries 29, 8 (1998) Eleanor Diaz and James LaRue, "50 Years of Intellectual Freedom," American Libraries 48, 11-12 (2016) BOARD OF EDUCATION, ISLAND TREES UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 26 et al., Petitioners, v. Steven A. PICO, by his next friend Frances Pico et al. Available at https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/457/853 Banned and Challenged Books, ALA, available at https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/classics Graham Greene, The Destructors, full text available at https://100mudcats.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/destructors.pdf Teen Cocaine Use: Joseph Moreau, ""I Learned it by Watching YOU!" The Partnership for a Drug-Free America and the Attack on "Responsible Use" Education in the 1980s," Journal of Social History 49:3 (Spring 2016): 710-37. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43920720 Richard A. Miech, Howard Chilcoat, and Valerie Harder, "The increase in the association of education and cocaine use over the 1980s and 1990s: Evidence for a 'historical period' effect," Drug and Alcohol Dependence 79 (2005):311-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2005.01.022 Robert A. Johnson and Dean R. Gerstein, "Initiation of Use of Alcohol, Cigarettes, Marijuana, Cocaine, and Other Substances in US Birth Cohorts since 1919," American Journal of Public Health 88:1 (1998): 27-33. https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdfplus/10.2105/AJPH.88.1.27 Jenifer Hamil-Luker, Kenneth C. Land, and Judith Blau, "Diverse trajectories of cocaine use through early adulthood among rebellious and socially conforming youth," Social Science Research 33 (2004): 300-21. Hand Dryers: Handy Andy' hand dryer Photograph, Gift of General Electric Company Limited, https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.26400145 Ernie Smith, "The Weird History of Hand Dryers Will Blow You Away," Atlas Obscura 24 August 2015, https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-weird-history-of-hand-dryers-will-blow-you-away Samanth Subramanian, "Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands," The Guardian 25 April 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/apr/25/hand-dryers-paper-towels-hygiene-dyson-airblade Background: Jeff Izaha, "What the Hell is 'Donnie Darko' About, Anyway?" Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-features/donnie-darko-20th-anniversary-richard-kelly-interview-1245435/ Phil Hoad, "How we made Donnie Darko," The Guardian 12 December 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/dec/12/how-we-made-donnie-darko-jake-gyllenhaal Megan Summers, "10 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Jake Gyllenhaal's Cult Classic Donnie Darko," ScreenRant 26 July 2020 https://screenrant.com/donnie-darko-behind-the-scenes/ "Donnie Darko" Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_Darko Rotten Tomatoes https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/donnie_darko Cellar Door: Leslie Jones, JRR Tolkien: A Biography. Greenwood Biographies, 2003. David Crystal, "Phonoaesthetically Speaking," Available at https://www.davidcrystal.com/Files/BooksAndArticles/-4009.pdf Harriet Powney, "What's the Loveliest Word in the English Language?" The Guardian, available at https://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2012/may/25/mind-your-language-loveliest-word  

Vote for us at the Sports Podcast Awards https://www.sportspodcastawards.com/categories/15This week's showMike's Documentary Choice: The Trials of Muhammad Ali https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/detail/B083JQ1CXF/ref=atv_hm_hom_1_c_beVn3j_4_1Steff's Book Choice: Alun Yr Arth https://amzn.to/3rQQh3o(Elis' Extra Book Choice: Language Death by David Crystal https://amzn.to/3JmV2Y4 )First Round of ClipsMike Clip: Adrian Clifton, Borehamwood FChttps://twitter.com/itvfootball/status/1490440893660291073?t=_OhPqAJLW1vProFUqcd8Gg&s=19Steff Clip: Swiss Shot Putter, World Champion Werner Gunthor in training - he is 6 Foot 7 Inches and 290 lbs in this clip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJECepNeCJ0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk4FsvZNxZcGunthor throwing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrYjHk7ktuoElis: How Alex Ferguson tactically adapted at Man Utd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj6UEQ6Ng1gSecond Round of Clips (via https://anchor.fm/nata-media/subscribe & https://www.patreon.com/distantpod )Mike Clip: Bill Murray golfinghttps://twitter.com/PGATOUR/status/1490084195875667969?t=DQeiJeK-YKNbVwtd-9asHw&s=19Steff Clip: Athlete Jake Smith buys footballs for kids in Uganda ​​https://twitter.com/jakesmith_run/status/1488556984567746564?s=21Elis: Gareth Edwards try v Scotland 1972 https://twitter.com/BBCScrumV/status/1490399715707564032

Derek investigates the origins of language through thinkers like David Crystal, Michael Corballis, and others, to investigate how two popular figures—Deepak Chopra and Rick Warren—sell their spiritual wares. Their patterns reveal the model many conspiritualist influencers use today.

Baroness Kate Hoey starts the show, chatting about Northern Ireland and her visit to Dover. Martin Daubney discusses the Liverpool attacker, and how he was housed in accommodation funded by the tax payer. Tonia Buxton and Mike have their weekly chat and finally, David Crystal, Author of the Cambridge Encyclopaedia speaks about the word of the year. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Kalina Tyrkiel dropped by for a chat about writing in English as a non-native speaker. Tune in to hear about the methods and tools you can use to succeed in UX writing, even if you have another mother tongue.Her conclusion is that being a non-native UX writer is both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, many non-natives face challenges related to grammar and fluency. On the other hand, those who use English as a second language have a natural feel for plain language and localization issues. Things that came up in our discussion:The difference between being a native speaker, a native writer, and a content strategistThe benefits of team work – no UX writer is a single player!Bridging the gap between language skills and content design skillsWhy dyslexia can be a strength for UX writersA psychologist by training and UX writer by trade, Kalina currently combines her passion for UX and coffee at Beans, a marketplace for coffee. Try our free UX writing courseConnect with Kalina on LinkedIn or FacebookCheck out Kalina's toolbox:Ludwig.guruReverso.contextGlowbe corpusAlso mentioned:David Crystal's numbers were quoted in this excellent podcast episode about nonnative English speakers. Check out his book English as a global language  too. Or any of his other books :)

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Episode Notes We chat with editor Kelly Urgan about her favourite audiobooks. We also touch on her career as an editor, her work with the Society of Young Publishers (SYP), and, how to find work as a freelancer. You can find Kelly at: https://www.editegrity.com/ https://twitter.com/editegrity We also touch on David Crystal's work on Shakespeare: https://www.britannica.com/video/187707/David-Crystal-pronunciation-Ben-Elizabethan-English-British Please subscribe and leave a review! Support Audiobookish by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/audiobookish Find out more at https://audiobookish.pinecast.co This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-8a93af for 40% off for 4 months, and support Audiobookish.

The Poetry of John Bradburne - 001 - 2021-09-06 - Meet the Poet Presented by David Crystal. David Crystal is honorary professor of linguistics at the University of Bangor, and works from his home in Holyhead, North Wales, as a writer, lecturer, editor, and broadcaster. He has been writing on topics in linguistics, with particular reference to the English language, since 1964, and a complete list of his publications, along with fuller biodata, can be found on his website www.davidcrystal.com. He received an OBE for services to the English language in 1995. His best-known books include The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of the English Language and The Stories of English, and his most recent book, published in July, is Tales of the Linguistically Unexpected. His recordings of the Catholic lectionary for lockdown can be found at www.lectionaryreadings.co.uk. He has edited all of John Bradburne's poetry for the online website www.johnbradburnepoems.com, and written a full account of the poems in A Life Made of Words: The Poetry and Thought of John Bradburne, available from his website or the John Bradburne Memorial Society. With his wife Hilary he has published several anthologies of the poems: Songs of the Vagabond, John Bradburne's Mutemwa, John Bradburne's Book of Days, John Bradburne's Birds Bees and Beasts, and John Bradburne on Love.

For the September episode of the podcast, Paul and his guest, legendary linguist David Crystal, converse about ... conversation itself.

Peaky Blinders may have gone some way towards helping the magical Birmingham accent out of the pit of scorn it's been abandoned in for decades, but many Brits still confidently pick it as their least favourite, without necessarily knowing why. WE know why, though, thanks to the extremely well informed and universally respected linguist David Crystal. We saved this little bit back from the RP episode he featured in, because it truly deserved its own bit of the limelight. Three cheers for all accents!  Tickets for the live episode at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-vo-social-live-commercial-demos-tickets-142531544687  Sign up for the newsletter at www.thevosocial.com  Theme tune written and performed by Martin Stirrup under this Creative Commons license. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thevosocial/message

Engage with the debate about texting and social media. Texting: do you love it or hate it? The advent of social media and instant digital communication has always incited strong feelings. Whether it’s led by people who feel that text abbreviations are corrupting the English language or those who feel that the world is moving too quickly, texting has always had its detractors. But Txtng (2008) stands as a staunch supporter of digital communication as David Crystal outlines the reasons why texting is an improvement, not a detraction, to the English language and society as a whole. *** Do you want more free audiobook summaries like this? Download our app for free at QuickRead.com/App and get access to hundreds of free book and audiobook summaries.

You may not realize it, but that smartphone in your pocket has influenced how you and much of the world speaks to each other. This week, Jordan and Joshua speak with two linguists to discuss how internet culture and even the act of texting has completely morphed the way the world communicates with each other. First, linguist David Crystal discusses how language has always evolved and changed, but the rapid-fire evolution of communication technology has thrown that change into hyperdrive. Plus, linguist Gretchen McCulloch explains more specifically how internet lingo has created a new form of language, merging written and spoken language, which is creating a generational gap, even between people born within a few years of each other. Whether you like it or not, the way you speak has been influenced by the technology around us. The question is, is this just a natural progression that has happened since the beginning of spoken language, or a sign of the decay of our society? Follow Wild Wild Tech Love Wild Wild Tech, but hate the ads? Subscribe to the ad-free version here!: https://wildwildtech.supercast.tech/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wildwildtechpod/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/wildwildtechpod/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This month the panel chat to special guest and Professor of Linguistics, David Crystal. They discuss how English conversation works and how it can be taught successfully in the English language classroom.

In this episode, we uncover the radical roots of Hamlet’s soliloquy by tracing how it sounded in the mouths of the famous actors who played the role. For four centuries, Shakespeare has been fought over - is he for the elite or for everyone? It's a battle which has seen ordinary people sent to jail just for performing Shakespeare - and it's a cultural conflict which continues today. This is the first part of a series looking at the revolutionary history of "To be or not to be". With Ben and David Crystal, Sarah Dustagheer, Sonia Massai, David Roberts, Peter Holland, Leslie Ritchie, Jed Wentz and Paul Willenbrock. Readings by Kris Dyer, Emma Fielding, Simon Paisley DayThe Pepys musical version: Paul Willenbrock, bass; Marco Horvat, baroque guitar; sound, Hamish Hossain; montage, Rebecca Young. Paul Willenbrock's website : sing-op-english.comFor more information on the podcast and how you can help theatres and actors during the COVID lockdown crisis: http://www.fleetingyearfilms.com/podcast.html# 

Jenny Saffran explores how language can develop before we can feed ourselves or go to the bathroom on our own. David Crystal analyzes conversations to understand what makes them work.

676. David Crystal: Let's Talk - How English Conversation Works Professor David Crystal returns to talk about his latest books, and more. The first book is all about the art of conversation in English, and the second one is a spy thriller inspired by real events. David Crystal is one of the world's leading linguists and an expert on the English language. He is also a national treasure and it's a treat to be able to talk to him in this episode. Video version also available on YouTube. Episode page https://wp.me/p4IuUx-cEY  LEP Premium https://www.teacherluke.co.uk/premiuminfo  YouTube version https://youtu.be/-YZiWvdQ76Q Let’s Talk - How English Conversation Works (OUP) by David Crystal https://global.oup.com/academic/product/lets-talk-9780198850694?cc=fr&lang=en& The Encyclopedia Codes by David Crystal https://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Codes-David-Crystal-ebook/dp/B08DDL8N3C/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=david+crystal+the+encyclopedia+codes&qid=1596307248&sr=8-1 Sign up to LEP Premium to improve your vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation https://www.teacherluke.co.uk/premiuminfo Previous Episodes with David Crystal Episode 454 https://teacherluke.co.uk/2017/05/31/454-david-crystal-interview-part-1-professor-of-linguistics/ Episode 455 https://teacherluke.co.uk/2017/06/06/455-david-crystal-interview-part-2-questions-from-listeners/ 

David Crystal analyzes conversations to understand what makes them work. Mark Antoniou covers the many benefits to learning a second language.

Ever notice that the more money you have in your wallet, the more likely you are to spend it? Well, it is actually more complicated than that. This episode begins with some interesting psychology that will help you spend less so you keep more of your money. http://www.forbes.com/video/4061993829001/ Ever hire someone to design a logo or brochure or website and have them present it to you and ask, “What do you think”? It has happened to me and my problem is, I don’t know what to think. I don’t know what makes a well-designed brochure or website. I don’t know what people will think when they see it or what motivates people to respond. If you have ever found yourself in the same boat you will want to listen to my guest Susan Weinschenk. Susan has a Ph.D. in Psychology, she is the Chief Behavioral Scientist and CEO at The Team W, Inc. (https://theteamw.com/) as well as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Wisconsin. She is also author of the book 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (https://amzn.to/323kNKK). Listen as she explains how people react to design elements and how to better design anything. When your doctor takes your blood pressure – does he check both arms or just one? There is a really good reason to check both. Listen as I explain why there is likely a difference between the blood pressure in your arms and what it could potentially mean. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120320195749.htm Think about how many times a day do you engage in conversation. It is the primary way we communicate with others. Yet, you likely don’t know much about the science of conversation. Interestingly, conversation can beautiful and brilliant or it can be awkward and difficult. Understanding how it works can make you a better conversationalist. Here to explain the science of conversation is David Crystal. David is a writer and editor and his latest book is called Let's Talk: How English Conversation Works (https://amzn.to/32e4qLF). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Show notes: http://becauselanguage.com/3-lets-talk/ Subscribe: http://becauselanguage.com/listen/ How does conversation work? Why are videoconference calls so awkward and terrible? Why can we say goodbye multiple times in a conversation, but good morning only once? And how do we get good at being a conversationalist? David Crystal tells us about his book Let’s Talk on this episode of Because Language.

David Crystal takes us all the way back to the first surviving example of written English, to the birth of American English to the spread of text messaging to the present day with the internet and corpus linguistics.

Hey listeners! Today we’re talking about Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. As you probably know, this play ends tragically with the two star-crossed lovers taking their own lives. Today’s episode includes a conversation about using this play as a bridge to discuss mental health and suicide with high schoolers. We believe this is an important part of the conversation about this play, but if this topic is triggering for you, we recommend skipping ahead about 2 and a half minutes starting at minute 26 to minute. Alright, let’s get into the episode!   Today Chelsey and Sara are chatting about Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. This play is the perfect match for spring fever, and for many of us, it was our first encounter with Shakespeare. We share lots of thoughts on reading this play as freshmen in high school and later as English teachers. Plus, we have opinions on how Shakespeare should be read and taught in general. Listen in for book recommendations that capture the star-crossed lovers theme but don’t end quite so tragically. Our discussion includes:   How we may have misunderstood the main characters (11:58) Why Mercutio is our favorite character (20:57) Content warning: brief discussion on teaching suicide awareness as part of the Romeo and Juliet curriculum (26:10-29:00) Why this play endures, and is still read in high schools (31:18)   Plus, as always, we’re recommending six contemporary books to pair with our classic include an unexpected literary retelling and a few YA romances.   Today’s episode is brought to you by Libro.fm, the only audiobook company that allows you to purchase audiobooks directly from your favorite indie bookstore. You can get THREE audiobooks for $15 by clicking this link or by using code NOVELPAIRINGS at checkout.   Librofm: https://libro.fm/membership/new   Shop our pairings at Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/lists/novel-pairings-for-romeo-and-juliet   Shakespeare in Love Prologue Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing Ian McKellen as King Lear The American Player’s Theatre 10 Things I Hate About You She’s the Man Chelsey’s Pairings: The Opposite of Always by Jason Reynolds (47:00) When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon (51:31) The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon (55:41)   Sara’s Pairings: The Shakespeare Miscellany by Ben and David Crystal (45:41) If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson (49:02) Circe by Madeline Miller (53:06)   Sara: Don’t Quill the Messenger podcast  Chelsey: No Holds Bard “So You’re Going to See Shakespeare” podcast episodes

In linguistics, intonation is variation in spoken pitch when used, not for distinguishing words as sememes (a concept known as tone), but, rather, for a range of other functions such as indicating the attitudes and emotions of the speaker, signalling the difference between statements and questions, and between different types of questions, focusing attention on important elements of the spoken message and also helping to regulate conversational interaction. (The term tone is used by some British writers in their descriptions of intonation but to refer to the pitch movement found on the nucleus or tonic syllable in an intonation unit.) Although intonation is primarily a matter of #pitchvariation, it is important to be aware that functions attributed to intonation such as the expression of attitudes and emotions, or highlighting aspects of grammatical structure, almost always involve concomitant variation in other prosodic features. David Crystal for example says that "intonation is not a single system of contours and levels, but the product of the interaction of features from different prosodic systems – tone, #pitchrange, loudness, rhythmicality and tempo in particular."[1] All vocal languages use pitch pragmatically in intonation—for instance for emphasis, to convey surprise or irony, or to pose a question. Tonal languages such as Chinese and Hausa use intonation in addition to using pitch for distinguishing words.[2] Many writers have attempted to produce a list of distinct functions of intonation. Perhaps the longest was that of W.R. Lee,[3] who proposed ten. J.C. Wells[4] and E. Couper-Kuhlen[5] both put forward six functions. weki --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/vegansteven/message

During the 16th century, William Shakespeare had his own way of pronouncing words as well, and exploring how to define what that pronunciation was, and how it impacts our understanding of the plays, is a special field of historical linguistics called Original Pronunciation. Our guest this week, Dr. David Crystal is the leading expert in the field of Original Pronunciation and he joins us this week to talk about how an experiment he lead at The Globe theater in London taught everyone involved how important understanding the spoken language is to understanding Shakespeare’s plays.

Paul's guest for November 2019 is eminent linguist David Crystal. Paul and David discuss the history of Received Pronunciation (RP), also known as the Queen’s English, BBC English, and Standard British English. They also discuss the newer dialect often referred to as Estuary. For more information about David, visit DavidCrystal.com, OriginalPronunciation.com, and ShakespearesWords.com.

A podcast on chapter 12 "Stylistic identify an literature" of the book The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language by David Crystal.

Denise and Louise talk to Beth Hamer, a professional proofreader and the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading's conference director. Beth chats about how to organize a successful editorial conference. Listen to find out more about: Responding to feedback Refining the delegate experience  Benefits of attending the annual SfEP conference Choosing a venue Choosing speakers  Programming sessions Mentioned in the show: Beth Hamer Freelance Proofreader: http://beth-hamer.co.uk/ Society for Editors and Proofreaders: https://www.sfep.org.uk SfEP annual conference: https://www.sfep.org.uk/networking/conferences/ SfEP 2019 speaker: Chris Brookmyre – crime/thriller author, speaker: https://www.brookmyre.co.uk/ SfEP 2019 speaker: Rob Drummond – linguist, writer, lecturer: https://www.robdrummond.co.uk/ SfEP 2019 speaker: David Crystal – linguist, writer, editor, lecturer and broadcaster: http://www.davidcrystal.com/ Denise and Louise https://www.denisecowleeditorial.com/ (Denise Cowle Editorial Services) (non-fiction) Louise Harnby | Fiction Editor and Proofreader (fiction) Music credit ‘Vivacity' Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

In this interview I talk to David Crystal: a legend in the world of the English language. He is a linguist, lecturer, and broadcaster, and he has written or edited over 100 books about language including the Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English language. We talk about language change, the myth of the native speaker, and why learning languages is part of being human. I hope you enjoy it!

Welcome, and thank you for listening to this presentation hosted by the Centre for Catholic Studies located at Durham University in Durham, United Kingdom. A centre for Catholic theology in the public academy. For more information, visit our website at www.centreforcatholicstudies.co.uk, or follow us on Twitter @CCSDham. The following lecture was presented in July 2019 at the Biennial Conference on Catholicism, Literature and the Arts—organized in partnership by the Centre for Catholic Studies, the University of Notre Dame and Ushaw College. The following lecture is given by Professor David Crystal, Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor, and is entitled “The Most Prolific Poet Ever:Where Next for John Bradburne”

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This week we chat with one of the world's leading linguists, David Crystal! A quick Amazon search would bring up many many books ranging from the English language all the way to Shakespeare. Thanks for tuning into this week's episode! 

This week we chat with one of the world's leading linguists, David Crystal! A quick Amazon search would bring up many many books ranging from the English language all the way to Shakespeare. Thanks for tuning into this week's episode! 

We ask David Crystal about standard English: why does standard English exist? How is it changing? Should students be exposed to different accents from around the world? And what role should culture play in English language teaching?Ross Thorburn: Welcome back to the TEFL Training Institute Podcast. This episode, we have Professor David Crystal ‑‑ linguist, writer, editor, lecturer, and broadcaster. In this episode, I asked David Crystal about standard English. Why does standard English exist? How is it changing? What type of English or Englishes should teachers teach?We talked about pronunciation and also the role that culture plays in language teaching. I hope you enjoy the interview.David Crystal, welcome to the podcast. Can you start off by telling us, when did the idea of standard English first start? Is it something that also came into play in the 18th century along with things like prescriptive grammar and Samuel Johnson and the first dictionary, etc., or was it something that started earlier than that?David Crystal: One has to ask the question, what is a standard for? A standard is to guarantee intelligibility amongst lots of people, because if you carry on writing in your regional dialect, eventually you won't understand each other.The first signs of standard English come in the Middle Ages when England becomes a nation rather than a set of independent kingdoms and there is a national civil service evolving, and a national parliament and all these things and English is becoming the language of the nation.Then it became essential to get rid of some of these variations, and all sorts of influences caused the evolution of standard English ‑‑ civil service scribes, for instance, individual authors like Chaucer, the influence of the Bible ‑‑ many, many different variations, but the point is that between 1400 and 1800, standard English as we know it today evolves.By 1800, virtually everybody was writing, and this is the point. Writing standard English is essentially a written form of English, not a spoken form. Even today, only a tiny proportion of the world's English‑language users speak standard English naturally at home as a first language. Most people learn standard English in school, and I'm talking not just about foreign language learners. I'm talking about native speakers as well.Only about four or five percent ‑‑ maybe even that's an exaggeration ‑‑ of people in England speak standard English as a natural home language. Most people speak regional variations. Most people say, "I ain't got this. We ain't got no nothing" and things of that sort. Double negatives, all non‑standard features ‑‑ that's how they normally speak.Then they go to school and they learn that, "That's not correct, dear boy. You have to say it this way," and you learn standard English. That's very useful, as long as you don't then your local accent and dialect demeaned in the process, which of course used to be the case.Anyway, around about 1800, standard English in this sense of a universal, pretty unified form of writing had emerged, thanks to Dr. Johnson, with his dictionary. People like Lindley Murray and Bishop Lowth with their grammars, people like John Walker with their pronunciation dictionary and so on and so forth.There's still a certain amount of variation, but on the whole, it's pretty standard. Then along comes Noah Webster in America and messes everything up, saying, "We don't want that standard anymore. We want a different sort of standard for a new nation," so he develops different standards for American English.Again, only about five percent of American English is different from British English in terms of spelling, punctuation, vocabulary, grammar, and so on, but it's a pretty significant five percent, nonetheless. Suddenly there are two standards in the world, British and American.Then that opened the floodgates, doesn't it, because any other country now who comes along and wants to use English. As soon as they adopt English they immediately feel they need to adapt it to express the identity of their own milieu.This is where non‑standard comes into play, because what non‑standard does is it expresses identity rather than intelligibility. You and I are speaking now non‑standard English to each other. We're not going to understand each other, but I'm proud of my non‑standard English and you're proud of yours.Of course, the result could be chaos but in many parts of the world, what happens is that the two varieties are so distinct that they don't mix each other up. I use standard English on some occasions. I use non‑standard English on other occasions.Ross: Presumably, now, then, most people recognize that one version of English isn't necessarily superior to the other. It's just that they get used at different times and in different situations, I suppose.David: Yeah. In other words, it's a notion of appropriateness rather than a notion of correctness. The 18th‑century notion was that only standard English was correct. Everything else was incorrect and rubbish and should never be used. You'll be punished if you use it.These days it's a notion of appropriateness ‑‑ that standard English is appropriate for some kinds of functions, non‑standard appropriate for other kinds of functions. This is where it gets relevant to all countries. We're not just talking about British and American and Australian and Indian or the old colonial territories. We're talking about Chinese English and Japanese English and so on.What is Chinese English for me? Chinese English is not somebody learning English from China and getting it wrong.No, it's somebody learning English from China who is now developing a good command of English but using it to express Chinese concepts and Chinese culture in a way that I would not necessarily understand, because I don't understand Chinese culture, coming from outside it.All over the world now, we see these "new Englishes," as they're called, being very different from traditional standard British English and traditional standard American English.What they're doing is they're allowing the expression of their local identity to become institutionalized in dictionaries and in novels, you see, and plays and poetry and grammars and things like this, so that we now have to respect the identity of whatever it might be ‑‑ Indian English, Nigerian English, Chinese English, by which I mean, English written by Chinese authors expressing a Chinese milieu but with a competent command of English, so that one can't just say, "Hey, that's a mistake."That is a genuine, shared expression of some section that's coming from China.Ross: Given all that, then, it really complicates the job of English‑language teachers, doesn't it? What's acceptable to teach and what is it acceptable to leave out? It's a lot more difficult, I guess, than it used to be, isn't it?David: Oh, gosh, it does, doesn't it? It is a fact that English‑language teaching has become more difficult because of the evolution of English in this way. It isn't a simple, "Oh, there's British and American English. As long as you know those two, you're home and dry."It's not the case anymore. Everything I've said, mind you, is really only relevant for language comprehension, not so much for language production. After all, if you're used to teaching standard British English in Received Pronunciation, as many teachers are and in any case as many exam boards expect and as a lot of materials expect anyway, then fine. Carry on.Standard British English is a good thing. RP is a good accent, etc., etc. But when it comes to listening comprehension and reading comprehension, if one restricts one's ability only to British English and RP, then you miss out Heaven knows how many percent ‑‑ probably most of the English language around the world.How many people speak traditionally British English in an RP accent? We're talking about, what, a couple of percent of the world's population. It's a very useful accent still. No question about that.Standard British is still a very useful dialect, but nonetheless, from a comprehension point of view, how often are you going to encounter it in the street, in literature, and so on? Only a minority of the time.It's an increasing gap, it seems to me, between production and comprehension when it comes to teaching. That's me finished now, Ross, because now it's your problem to decide how to implement this in terms of syllabus design and at what point in the teaching process do you introduce these variations? I have the easy job here.[laughter]Ross: That's a pity, because that was actually my next question.David: [laughs]Ross: What do you think? Should teachers and course books and writers be trying to work in examples of non‑standard English and non‑standard accents from all around the world into their lessons and in their course books?It seems that even, for example, native speakers might even need help with their listening skills in developing an ear from accents from parts of the world that they're maybe traveling to that they haven't been before. Presumably the same is true for non‑native speakers as well.David: Absolutely. These days there is no difference, essentially, between a native and a non‑native speaker of English in this respect. I go to another part of the world just like a second‑language learner goes to the same part of the world and we're both equally foxed by the local identity of the language.I have this all the time. I go to places. I don't know what the heck is going on, because I just don't understand the local words, the local expressions, the local nicknames of the politicians. All these cultural identity things are everywhere now. It's a problem for me as much as for the other.As far as materials are concerned, yes I think one should build in right from the very beginning an awareness of variation. Some programs do this. Global, for example, does this to a certain extent. I think it's more general than that. All the materials, of course, have always had a certain cultural input.You teach the present tense by for example saying, "Let us go for a walk down Oxford Street. Let's buy some things," and we'll use the present tense for that. It's drama driving the content.You can also at the same time let culture help to drive the content. Not only do you have a vocabulary list at the end of the chapter which says what's going on or explains what's going on, but you have a culture list as well.For example, we've done Oxford Street. When somebody says, "Let's look at your watch," and you say, "Oh, it's a nice watch," and the person says, "Yes, but it's not actually Bond Street. It's Portobello Road."That's the kind of comment that anybody might make ‑‑ completely unintelligible to most foreigners until they know that Bond Street is the posh street and Portobello Road is the street market.You could easily imagine how going into a shop to buy a watch to drill the present tense or whatever might also be supplemented by a little cultural panel somewhere or other which says, "Here ‑‑ this is a posh place to buy. This is not a posh place to buy." You gradually build up a sense of the cultural identity of the place.I'll put it another way. If I go to Beijing, how do you translate Bond Street and Portobello Road into Beijing or wherever? How would you do it? If a Chinese person said that sentence to me in English ‑‑ "Go to this part of..." ‑‑ I would not know what it meant until it was explained, which, you know what I mean by saying it's a very general issue.Ross: I also wanted to ask you a bit about how new meanings come about, because obviously that's something that happens, I think, both in standard and non‑standard English. I think you mention in "A Little Book of Language" about encouraging people to look up word meanings in dictionaries.Is it also the case that words often only really take on new meanings when people misuse them? Can you tell us a bit about how new meanings come about, or maybe how first they might be non‑standard or maybe even just considered to be wrong?David: To begin with, some people would say that any new meaning was a wrong use. There are always pedants around who will say that any change is an error to begin with. Then gradually usage grows and people forget that was ever a problem. They focus on new things that are taking place. This has routinely happened.It's only happened since the 18th century. Before that, change just took place...People did object to it. Some people tried to stop it, people like Dryden and Swift and, to begin with, Johnson, said, "We must stop language change. Look, the French have done this with their Academy. They've stopped..." Of course they hadn't. But they tried and thought they were doing so.Johnson himself recognizes this eventually and says, "Even the French haven't managed to stop language change. That's why we don't want an academy over here."Change takes place. It will always get reactions. It's a very natural process, very subtle process. Most of the semantic changes that affect vocabulary take place without anybody noticing them happening at all until they become established, they get a new the dictionary, a new sense comes along, and people say, "Oh yeah. Of course. We've been saying that for years. We just haven't noticed it happening."Ross: One more time, everyone, that was Professor David Crystal. If you'd like to know more about David's work, please visit his website at www.davidcrystal.com. I hope you enjoyed today's interview and we'll see you again next time. Goodbye.

Er regler egentlig bare regelmessigheter som har fått et litt finere navn? Skrev man bedre før i tiden? Og hvem bestemmer egentlig hva som er korrekt språk?  Slike spørsmål ligger i et landskap hvor det er mange dype kaninhull, og etter å ha tråkket litt tilfeldig rundt i disse hullene i årevis, bestemte vi oss for å ta en nærmere titt. Språk, hva er egentlig problemet ditt? Feil blir begått, og ingen ser ut til å ha kontroll. Men dette her er Lars og Pål i forhold til språk, og vi våger modig å gå innom problematikken, og kanskje ser ting litt klarere ut på andre siden av kaninmine feltet.  «Går man egentlig på visitt til kaninhull?», skriver Pål på melding, og jeg blir litt usikker. Språk er ikke bare rarere enn du kan forestille deg, det er rarere enn Lewis Carroll og Triztan Vindtorn til sammen kan forestille seg, som J.B.S. Haldane sa. Seriøst, snakk og skriv ordentlig. Barnehagen din blir ikke deterritorialisert bare fordi du skrev det. Og ingen leser podkastnotatene til en liten norsk podkast uansett, så her skriver vi det vi vil...    Noen kilder vi har brukt til episoden og anbefalte bøker om tema: Bøker: David Crystal, Spell it out, Profile Books 2012 Guy Deutscher, The unfolding of language: An evolutionary tour of mankind’s greatest invention, Metropolitan Books 2005 Tore Janson, Språk og historie, Pax Forlag 2011 Helene Uri, Hvem sa hva? Kvinner, menn og språk, Gyldendal 2018 David Foster Wallace, Consider the lobster, Little, Brown and Company, 2005 Norsk grammatikk. Riksmål og moderat bokmål, 2016, kapittel 17 om språknormeringshistorie: https://www.riksmalsforbundet.no/grammatikk/kapittel-17-oversikt-riksmals-og-bokmalstradisjonens-normeringshistorie-siden-1814/   Artikler:   Ted Bunn, «Prescription: retire the words «prescriptivist» and «descriptivist»», bloggartikkel 2015: https://blog.richmond.edu/physicsbunn/2015/07/29/prescription-retire-the-words-prescriptivist-and-descriptivist/   Steven Pinker: «Grammar Puss», New Republic, 1994 https://newrepublic.com/article/77732/grammar-puss-steven-pinker-language-william-safire «False fronts in the language wars», Slate, 2012 https://slate.com/culture/2012/05/steven-pinker-on-the-false-fronts-in-the-language-wars.html?fbclid=IwAR1WzpP2fXSr1UVpHFiiDWnL31Lh7vpStqJt1vm97ji3XQfZC34ffr50pG8 «Steven Pinker: Many of the alleged rules of writing are actually superstitions», The Guardian, 2015 https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2015/oct/06/steven-pinker-alleged-rules-of-writing-superstitions?fbclid=IwAR09tMba1s0FdPFnY4_jsaohmVxfz_1IJ0iuqotBAVRgcBXyCNNL0df0s24   David Skinner: «Ain’t that the truth. Webster’s Third: The most controversial dictionary in the English language», Humanities, 2009 https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2009/julyaugust/feature/ain%E2%80%99t-the-truth   David Foster Wallace: «Tense present», Harper’s, 2001 https://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/HarpersMagazine-2001-04-0070913.pdf   Og for å teste dine egne holdninger til språk, korrekthet og så videre, her er en temmelig ny artikkel fra NRK som vil få deg til å gjespe eller blodet ditt til å koke, alt ettersom hvilken språklig legning du har: https://www.nrk.no/norge/kj-eller-skj_-det-er-uansett-ikke-en-talefeil_-mener-professor-1.14291087 ---------------------------- Logoen vår er laget av Sveinung Sudbø, se hans arbeider på originalkopi.com Musikken er av Arne Kjelsrud Mathisen, se facebooksiden Nygrenda Vev og Dur for mer info. ----------------------------  Takk for at du hører på. Ta kontakt med oss på vår facebookside eller på larsogpaal@gmail.com Det finnes ingen bedre måte å få spredt podkasten vår til flere enn via dere lyttere, så takk om du deler eller forteller andre om oss. Alt godt, hilsen Lars og Pål

Paul's guest this month is David Crystal, one of the world's most famous linguists and the leader of the modern movement we call OP: Original Pronunciation of Shakespeare’s works. David explains the fascinating linguistic subfield called Pragmatics, which he defines as the "study of the choices that you make when you use language, the reasons for those choices, and the effects that the choices convey." See David’s websites: http://originalpronunciation.com/, www.davidcrystal.com, and https://www.shakespeareswords.com/.

Congratulations to Astrid Scholte and her upcoming publication. Cockygate goes nuts, how to write a book when you have a full-time job, and should you read when you’re writing? Discover your chance to win a copy of ‘Sounds Appealing’ by David Crystal. And meet media personality Sami Lukis, author of ‘Romantically Challenged’. Read the show notes.  Email Valerie and Allison podcast@writerscentre.com.au. WritersCentre.com.au | AllisonTait.com | ValerieKhoo.com 

On the programme this week, linguist David Crystal is looking at pronunciation - what does is mean to have a 'friendly accent'? Inspired by David's writing is a brand new poem from Mike Garry which plays with 'Approximants' - consonants that sound like vowels and are often seen as being friendly. In 'Spandex and the City' (Orbit), novelist Jenny Colgan finds out what happens when a romantic heroine meets a superhero, and we hear an extract from 'Lord Fox', a collaboration between the writer Kirsty Logan, harpist Esther Swift and songwriter Kirsty Law Presenter: Ian McMillan Producer: Cecile Wright.

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A follow-up to episode 455 consolidating the insights of Professor David Crystal including various pearls of wisdom about language learning. Episode page: http://wp.me/p4IuUx-7OS  italki offer: http://www.teacherluke.co.uk/talk 

Discussing and clarifying what David Crystal said in episode 454. Conclusions about language learning and linguistics.   Episode page: http://wp.me/p4IuUx-7OB italki offer: http://www.teacherluke.co.uk/talk 

Talking to the world's top writer and lecturer on the English language, Professor David Crystal. In this episode, David answers questions from listeners. Episode page: http://wp.me/p4IuUx-7Od italki offer: http://www.teacherluke.co.uk/talk 

Talking about language with one of the world's top linguists, Professor David Crystal. italki offer: http://www.teacherluke.co.uk/talk Episode page: http://wp.me/p4IuUx-7NH 

Breathe magazine launches and Yen mag closes. Discover some great tips on how to write historical fiction and learn a neat trick for dealing with research for multiple articles. Meet the dynamic and engaging David Crystal, author of ‘Making Sense: The Glamorous Story of English Grammar’. Plus: play with the 'One Word' app, find out what your minimum author online presence should be and much more! Read the show notes.  Connect with Valerie, Allison and listeners in the podcast community on Facebook Visit WritersCentre.com.au | AllisonTait.com | ValerieKhoo.com

The unlikely second episode of two guys talking about things they're interested in. Check out what we think about things. You can find us on other sites at @bytereview and @benjionelung This episode is on Youtube at: https://youtu.be/etmPx3_U8Pk IN THIS EPISODE: 01:45 What we think about that Trump fellow 07:10 NEW SEGMENT: International News! 09:45 Rabichi preview (mild spoilers) 16:00 Videogames as art, less pretentious conversation than it sounds 24:00 How cool Bioshock is 28:50 Remember how great Portal was? And how much it's like old sci-fi? 31:40 Fallout 3 and the art of storytelling 32:50 What If? by Randall Munroe 38:40 Eagle vs. Shark 40:25 Casey Neistat and daily vlogs 45:45 How good journalling is 49:00 Tom's next video and thoughts about Pixel 52:20 Google AI helping out with medicine 54:30 Some cool stuff about accents Some things we talk about in this episode: Rabichi Trump wants to go to the moon Australian golfers 52 Pick-Up What If? by Randall Munroe, the website ...and the book xkcd Eagle Vs. Shark Beme joining CNN Google AI helping with retinal photography You Say Potato, by Ben and David Crystal

Ron Severdia chats with professor David Crystal about Shakespeare's Original Pronunciation, his Hamlet Quarto discovery, Shakespeare's Words, and his love for "Twitterrhea".

In this series of The Essay, recorded this week in front of an audience at the Hay Festival, five writers explore The Art of Storytelling. The writers include linguist Prof. David Crystal, artist and memoirist Edmund de Waal, broadcaster and musician Clemency Burton-Hill and novelist Jon Gower.Today, Prof. Emma Smith takes a closer look at Shakespeare's skills as a storyteller and how his plots, where the outcome is often signposted from the beginning, still hold audiences enthralled.Part of Radio 3's week-long residency at the Hay Festival, with programmes In Tune, Lunchtime Concert, Free Thinking and The Verb all broadcasting from the Festival.

In this series of The Essay, recorded this week in front of an audience at Hay Festival, five writers explore The Art of Storytelling. The writers include artist and memoirist Edmund de Waal, broadcaster and musician Clemency Burton-Hill, Shakespeare scholar Professor Emma Smith and novelist Jon Gower. Today, with so many of the world's languages disappearing, Professor David Crystal asks how we can preserve for the future the many different stories of accent, dialect and language. Part of Radio 3's week-long residency at Hay Festival, with programmes In Tune, Lunchtime Concert, Free Thinking and The Verb all broadcasting from the Festival.

In this series of The Essay, recorded this week in front of an audience at the Hay Festival, five writers explore The Art of Storytelling. The writers include linguist Prof. David Crystal, broadcaster and musician Clemency Burton-Hill, Shakespeare scholar Prof. Emma Smith and novelist Jon Gower.Today Edmund de Waal, artist and writer of the memoir 'The Hare With Amber Eyes' considers the idea of storytelling through objects, taking as his starting-point a fragment of 12th century porcelain he bought in a Chinese street-market.Part of Radio 3's week-long residency at the Hay Festival, with programmes In Tune, Lunchtime Concert, Free Thinking and The Verb all broadcasting from the Festival.

Episode 37 is brought to you by italki, where you can find a language partner for any language. We tested it with rare languages like Icelandic, and it totally delivered. Get an awesome free lesson deal at italki.Today's Topic: Multilingual BritainBritain is not monolingual at all, but in fact it is teeming with languages. In this episode, we present you the real landscape of languages spoken in the British Isles. Can you guess how many languages are indigenous to this country? We discovered some amazing things, not lastly you'll NEVER guess what Irish and Spanish bears have in common!You'll be surprised to find that more than 2 million people in the UK speak British languages other than English. Here is a quick summary of the bigger groups of languages spoken in the UK - not just British languages, but also the immigrant languages most popular in the UK today, for example Polish, Gujarati and Urdu.Listen to our podcast episode to get a wonderful tour of the British languages, including: What does it take to keep a minority language alive? Did you know there was a Scots dictionary - and how it's influenced the English language? Our pondering of the true official languages of Great Britain Turns out children really are the future when it comes to reviving languages that don't have native speakers anymore, for example Cornish Lindsay does some amazing demonstrations of the Scottish language and accent. And Kerstin says her first "goodbye" in Welsh!Links and Tips from This Episode Don't Neglect the UK's Indigenous Languages in the UK Guardian Blood of the Irish documentary series Speak Irish To Me, a podcast episode of "The World in Words" Irish PM refuses to speak English in parliament Language Death by David Crystal, a book covering endangerment and death of many minority languages across the world Ffasiwn Bildar "Fashion Builder", Welsh Language reality tv Omniglot, Simon Ager's absolutely amazing language encyclopedia on the internet - for example check out the Cornish language The British Term "chav" Why There Are Two Ways To Pronounce "Celtic" Hugo Scottish Gaelic in 3 Months - this is a link to Lindsay's old version Collins Gem Scots Dictionary Which British Languages Did You Know?You can get in touch with us and tell us what you thought by1) leaving us an iTunes review by visiting our itunes page and clicking "Ratings and Reviews"2) using hashtag #cllp on Twitter (I am @kerstinhammes and Lindsay is @ldlanguages.And once again, thanks so much to our sponsors Italki - please support our show by visiting that link today. Special Guest: Simon Ager.

Kurt Vonnegut once gave this piece of creative writing advice: "First rule: Do not use semicolons... All they do is show you've been to college.”   There's no question that punctuation elicits strong feelings. On today's Please Explain, linguist David Crystal teaches us how to correctly use punctuation, and gives us a history of why we punctuate the way we do. His latest book, Making a Point: The Persnickety Story of English Punctuation, completes his trilogy of books on the English language. Do you have questions about punctuation? Write to us in a comment below, or let us know on Twitter or Facebook!

Forget Laurence Olivier and Peggy Ashcroft, Al Pacino and Judi Dench. To take us back to Shakespeare's own time Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright hear Shakespeare as he himself would have spoken. The original, unvarnished version from linguist David Crystal and actor Ben Crystal. They look at the fashion for Original Pronunciation and ask what it can tell us about how we speak now. Michael and Laura perform some of Shakespeare's best known work in the original accent and attempt to bring new meaning and wit to language coated by centuries of veneer. Producer: Mair Bosworth.

Ever wonder what Shakespeare’s plays actually sounded like 400 years ago? David Crystal is a linguist and author who has researched Original Pronunciation, or OP, the accent with which actors in Shakespeare’s day would have spoken their lines. And Daniel Fromson tells the modern-day story of a man who set sail for Tangier Island on which it’s rumored OP still exists. Plus: Getting the accent right is not the only challenge in reading Elizabethan English. Paul D’Andrea has spent years trying to pull the big ideas out of Shakespeare’s plays. D’Andrea was named Outstanding Faculty of 2015 by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. Later in the show: With seven unpublished novels wasting away on his hard drive, Tony Vanderwarker was astonished when world-renowned author John Grisham offered to take him under his wing and mentor Tony on the art of thriller writing. Plus: Novelist Carrie Brown draws inspiration from her years as a small-town America journalist, and from the mysteries of the cosmos. Her new book The Stargazer’s Sister tells the story of two remarkable sibling astronomers whose work led to the discovery of the planet Uranus.

The Sydney Writers' Festival kicks off, are "clean words" offensive, the key to keeping clients happy, the one skill you need to write well, how to create a fantastic social media plan, the book "Spell It Out" by David Crystal, Writer in Residence Annabel Smith, understanding Scrivener, how to deal with negative people. Got a question for Val and Al? Ask at podcast@writerscentre.com.au. Read the show notes.  WritersCentre.com.au | AllisonTait.com | ValerieKhoo.com 

Would Lady Mary really have said that Lady Sybil was "banging on about her new frock", in 1912? British linguist David Crystal discusses his new book, 'Words in Time and Place'.

"Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue." —HAMLET (3:2:1–2) When Shakespeare wrote his lines, and actors first spoke them, how did they say the words—and what does that tell us? Rebecca Sheir, host of the Shakespeare Unlimited series, talks "original pronunciation" (OP) with Shakespearean actor Ben Crystal and his father, linguist David Crystal, one of the world's foremost researchers on how English was spoken in Shakespeare's time. Filled with lively banter as well as familiar lines spoken in OP, the conversation offers a different perspective on the plays, from the puns and rhymes hidden by modern pronunciation to added meanings and the opportunity for quicker speech. Ben Crystal is a Shakespearean actor who has appeared through Great Britain and the United States. David Crystal, Ben Crystal's father, is a linguist, editor, lecturer, and author of more than 100 books, including "The Stories of English," "The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language," and "The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language." ---------------- From the Shakespeare Unlimited podcast series. © Folger Shakespeare Library. All rights reserved. Written and produced for the Folger Shakespeare Library by Richard Paul. Garland Scott is the associate producer. Edited by Gail Kern Paster and Esther Ferington. We had help from Esther French at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Geoff Oliver at the Sound Company in London, and Jonathan Charry at WAMU radio in Washington, DC.

Throughout 2014, Shakespeare’s 450th birthday inspired festivals and performances around the world. As the year of his birth comes to a close, we take a look back at how the Bard’s plays would have been performed in their day. David Crystal is a linguist and author who has researched Original Pronunciation, or OP, the accent with which actors in Shakespeare’s day would have spoken their lines. And Daniel Fromson tells the modern-day story of a man who set sail for an island on which it’s rumored OP still exists. Plus: Getting the accent right is a challenge, but there’s a whole different challenge in uncovering what Shakespeare’s words actually meant. Paul D’Andrea (George Mason University) has spent years trying to pull the big ideas out of Shakespeare’s plays. Later in the show: With seven unpublished novels wasting away on his hard drive, Tony Vanderwarker was astonished when world-renowned author John Grisham offered to take him under his wing and mentor Tony on the art of thriller writing. Plus: Novelist Carrie Brown (Hollins University) draws inspiration from her years as a small-town America journalist, and from the mysteries of the cosmos. Her new book The Stargazer’s Sister tells the story of two remarkable sibling astronomers whose work led to the discovery of the planet Uranus.

Today, with Halloween in mind, I have a Quick and Dirty tip about the difference between a casket and a coffin; and an excerpt from David Crystal’s new book, Words in Time and Place, that goes through the many words we have for death and dying. Finally, I saw something shocking in a formal document a few weeks ago, so I have a tidbit about text messaging and language. Read the transcript: http://bit.ly/1sXJDC5

With Mark Lawson. Artists Jonathan Yeo and John Keane have both painted the portrait of Tony Blair - the former in an official commission in 2008, and the latter in an unofficial series of new paintings which depict Blair at the Chilcot Inquiry. The artists discuss what they found looking into the face of the former Prime Minister. Sculptor Antony Gormley has teamed up with choreographer Hofesh Shechter for Survivor, a new musical work which features 150 amateur drummers, audience participation and live video projection. They explain how they divided up the creative work and how Shechter's artistic anger informed the piece. As a cinema joins forces with chef Leigh Rowley to offer film-goers a meal while watching their movie, popcorn historian Andrew F Smith discusses the long history of eating while gazing at the big screen. The chain of bookshops originally founded by Tim Waterstone has decided to drop the apostrophe in its name. Linguistics expert David Crystal considers this decision, and assesses whether it spells the beginning of the end for the apostrophe. Producer Stephen Hughes.

With Mark Lawson. As queues form for the largest-ever show of Leonardo da Vinci's paintings at the National Gallery, artist Tom Phillips reviews and considers whether the exhibition justifies the hype. At just 33, Maltese singer Joseph Calleja is tipped as one of the most promising tenors of the 21st century. He talks about his new album and his singing ambitions. Linguistics specialist David Crystal has selected 100 words which he feels best illustrate the huge variety of sources and events which have shaped the English language. He elaborates on some of his choices, showing how, for example, hello is a relatively new invention - whereas unfriend is nothing like as modern as we think. Producer Lisa Davis.

With Mark Lawson. Anthony Horowitz, author of the Alex Ryder spy series, has written a new Sherlock Holmes novel. He discusses how he has approached the distinctive narrative voice, and reflects on the potential pitfalls in taking on such well-loved characters. Alice in Wonderland, an exhibition at Tate Liverpool, examines how Lewis Carroll's classic books have inspired a wide range of art, from Victorian paintings to videos. Children's author and illustrator Chris Mould reviews. Dramatist David Edgar talks about his new play Written on the Heart, which marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible. The play explores the different fates of the two translators: death at the stake for one, and for the other the possibility of an archbishop's mitre. The next James Bond film will be called Skyfall - which is not one of Ian Fleming's original titles. Language expert David Crystal reflects on the possible sources of the word skyfall, and film critic Mark Eccleston discusses what makes a great Bond title. Producer: Georgia Mann.

In an enormously prolific writing and editing career, David Crystal has excelled in supplying volumes hitherto missing from the field: here a balanced and accessible introduction to general linguistics, there a lucid specialised textbook in an emerging field. With this memoir, Just a Phrase I’m Going Through: My Life in Language (Routledge, 2009), he fills another gap, and offers a vivid picture of the working life of a professional linguist. The book follows Crystal’s career across an enormous range of linguistic disciplines, from English usage through clinical linguistics and on into semantic Web indexing. It also describes the many other channels along which Crystal’s enthusiasm for language has run – reconstructing the speech sounds of Shakespeare for the stage, presenting the case for endangered languages, and doing battle with the forces of ‘linguistic purism’ on the radio. I talk with Crystal about his motivation for writing a memoir, the challenges of applied linguistics, and the unpredictable future of language and its study. Along the way, I learn how to sell parts of speech to a shoe merchant, how not to sell knives to internet users, and why we won’t be seeing a Broadway musical on the topic of language death. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In an enormously prolific writing and editing career, David Crystal has excelled in supplying volumes hitherto missing from the field: here a balanced and accessible introduction to general linguistics, there a lucid specialised textbook in an emerging field. With this memoir, Just a Phrase I’m Going Through: My Life in Language (Routledge, 2009), he fills another gap, and offers a vivid picture of the working life of a professional linguist. The book follows Crystal’s career across an enormous range of linguistic disciplines, from English usage through clinical linguistics and on into semantic Web indexing. It also describes the many other channels along which Crystal’s enthusiasm for language has run – reconstructing the speech sounds of Shakespeare for the stage, presenting the case for endangered languages, and doing battle with the forces of ‘linguistic purism’ on the radio. I talk with Crystal about his motivation for writing a memoir, the challenges of applied linguistics, and the unpredictable future of language and its study. Along the way, I learn how to sell parts of speech to a shoe merchant, how not to sell knives to internet users, and why we won’t be seeing a Broadway musical on the topic of language death. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[This episode first aired October 4, 2008.]Proverbs pack great truths into a few well-chosen words, no matter which language you speak. Check out this one from Belize: 'Don't call the alligator a big-mouth till you have crossed the river.' And this truism from Zanzibar: 'When two elephants tussle, it's the grass that suffers.' Martha and Grant discuss a new paremiography--a collection of proverbs--from around the world. A woman from Cape Cod is looking for a polite word that means the current wife of my ex-husband. She's thinking about 'cur-wife,' but somehow that doesn't quite work. Neither does the phrase 'that poor woman.' The hosts try to help her come up with other possibilities.'It's raining, it's pouring.' But what exactly is the 'it' that's doing all that raining and pouring? This question from a caller prompts Grant to explain what linguists mean when they talk about the 'weather it.' Hint: It depends on what the meaning of 'it' is.Your eyetooth is located directly beneath your eye. But is that why they're called eyeteeth? A Boston caller would give her eyeteeth to know. Okay, not really, but she did want an answer to this question.Quiz Guy John Chaneski invites Grant and Martha to busta rhyme with a word puzzle called Rhyme Groups.You've seen people indicate emphasis by putting a period after each of several words, and capitalizing the first letter of each word. A Michigan listener wonders how this stylistic trick arose. Her question was prompted by this description of French model-turned-presidential-spouse Carla Bruni: 'She's got a cashmere voice and a killer body. Plays decent guitar and writes her own lyrics. Can hold her own with queens and statesmen. She. Must. Be. Stopped.' Jealous much?Do you want to get down? Ask that in parts of Louisiana, and people know you're not inquiring whether they care to dance, you're asking if they want to get out of a car. A former Louisianan who grew up using the expression that way wonders if it's French-inspired. The hosts proceed to use the phrase 'get down' so much they end up with a dreadful K.C. and the Sunshine Band earworm.Which is correct for describing a close family resemblance: spittin' image or spit and image? Grant and Martha discuss the possible origins of these expressions, including a recent hypothesis that's sure to surprise.In this week's episode of Slang This!, Dave Dickerson from the National Puzzlers' League tries to guess the meaning of the terms cowboy up and money bomb.If you've used the word sickly too many times in a paragraph and need a synonym, there's always dauncy, also spelled donsie and dauncy. Grant explains the origin of this queasy-sounding word.A Navy man stationed in Hawaii phones to settle a dispute over the difference between acronyms and initialisms. Here's hoping he didn't go AWOL to make the call.Is English is going to hell in the proverbial handbasket? A Wisconsin grandmother thinks so, particularly because of all the ums and you knows she hears in everyday speech. The hosts discuss these so-called disfluencies, including how to avoid them and how to keep other people's disfluencies from grating on your nerves.We leave you with a couple other proverbs translated into English. They're from David Crystal's paremiography, As They Say in Zanzibar:Proverbs are like butterflies; some are caught and some fly away. (Germany)Teachers open the door; you enter by yourself. (China)--Get your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time:Email: words@waywordradio.orgPhone: United States toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673London +44 20 7193 2113Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771Site: http://waywordradio.org.Podcast: http://waywordradio.org/podcast/Forums: http://waywordradio.org/discussion/Newsletter: http://waywordradio.org/newsletter/Twitter: http://twitter.com/wayword/Skype: skype://waywordradio Copyright 2009, Wayword LLC.

[This episode first aired Sept. 27, 2009.]OMG, text messaging! It's destroying the English language, corrupting young minds, turning us into a nation of illiterates. It's probably shrinking the ozone layer, too. Or is it? In his new book, 'Txting: The Gr8 Db8,' author David Crystal offers a different perspective. The book's surprising message is one which linguists have shared for years: Far from obliterating literacy, texting may actually improve it. So put that in your message header and send it!The French phrase 'au jus' means with sauce, which is why it drives some diners to distraction when a menu lists beef with 'au jus sauce.' A Wisconsin listener calls to say this phrase sets her teeth on edge. The hosts order up an answer fresh from the 'Waiter, There's a Redundancy in My Soup!' Department.In medical parlance, your big toe is your 'hallux.' But what about the other four? Do they have anatomical names as well? A San Diego man who hurt the toe next to his big toe is tired of referring to his injured digit as 'the toe next to my big toe,' and wants the proper medical term. How does 'porcellus domi' grab you? Prehensily? Quiz Guy John Chaneski presents a letter-shaving game called 'Curtailments.' In this game, Grant and Martha leave everything on the floor.A caller from Stevens Point, Wisconsin, was puzzled when she moved there and locals asked, 'What's your name from home?' meaning, 'What's your maiden name?' The community has a strong Polish heritage, and she wonders if there's a connection. It's a good hunch, and Martha explains why.Say you have a particularly rambunctious child. Okay, a little hellion. Is it proper to describe the little devil as a 'holy terror'? Or might it be more correct and more logical to call him an 'unholy terror'? A Los Angeles caller thinks it's the latter.If you've flown from Milwaukee's Mitchell International Airport recently, you may have noticed an odd but official-looking sign that reads: 'RECOMBOBULATION AREA.' A caller from Madison was discombobulated to see it, then started wondering about the roots of such words. See if it does the same for you here: http://tinyurl.com/4mc8dmThe real problem with texting isn't how it affects language, but what it does to social interaction. Is there anything more annoying when you're trying to have a conversation than watching your companion's eyes flitting to his phone when he sees that a text message just arrived? The hosts discuss the need for a new text-messaging etiquette.Let's say that you're getting 'diesel therapy' at 'o-dark-thirty.' What are you getting and when are you getting it? A New Jersey contestant from the National Puzzlers' League learns the meaning of these terms in this week's slang quiz.What do you call a word made from a blend of two other words, like 'motel' from 'motor' and 'hotel'? A listener says his term for them is 'Reese's Peanut Butter Cup words,' after the old commercial: 'You got chocolate in my peanut butter! You got peanut butter in my chocolate!' But he wonders if there's another, more established term. The hosts introduce him to the word 'portmanteau.'When it comes to text messaging and its effect on English, the linguistic apocalypse is not nigh. Quite the contrary, in fact. Grant talks about some eye-opening research about text-messaging and teen literacy. That's all for this week. L8r!--Get your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time:Email: words@waywordradio.orgPhone: United States toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673London +44 20 7193 2113Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771Site: http://waywordradio.org.Podcast: http://waywordradio.org/podcast/Forums: http://waywordradio.org/discussion/Newsletter: http://waywordradio.org/newsletter/Twitter: http://twitter.com/wayword/Skype: skype://waywordradio Copyright 2009, Wayword LLC.

David Crystal, a world expert of Shakespearian pronunciation, on why Romeo and Juliet would have been 10 minutes shorter in Shakespeare's day, and other fascinating insights.