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Language titan Tiger Webb is helping us with our voluminous Mailbag. Hedvig is giving her annual Eurovision language roundup. And we're sorting through the lexicon of the 2022 Australian election. Is MAYBE a compound word? What about ANOTHER, or GARBAGE? Are GONNA and WANNA portmanteaus? What does it take to be a linguist?

Cassie is away this week, so Kate is joined by the ABC's Tiger Webb: reading Emily St John Mandel's Sea of Tranquility, Steven Carroll's Goodnight, Vivienne, Goodnight, and Mona Awad's All's Well, with novelist Rhett Davis and critic Nicole Abadee

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Why do we say the Big Bad Wolf, instead of the Bad Big Wolf? Tiger Webb, the ABC's Language Expert explains the hierarchy of how adjectives have to appear in the English language

Why do we say the Big Bad Wolf, instead of the Bad Big Wolf? Tiger Webb, the ABC's Language Expert explains the hierarchy of how adjectives have to appear in the English language

Why do we say the Big Bad Wolf, instead of the Bad Big Wolf? Tiger Webb, the ABC's Language Expert explains the hierarchy of how adjectives have to appear in the English language

Kate and Cassie join guests Larissa Behrendt and Tiger Webb as Irish writer John Boyne takes on the Twittersphere; Nick Earls spins a tale that takes us from Vienna during the Napoleonic Wars through Russia in 1916 and on to contemporary Alaska and Hong Kong; and in Christine Mangan's Palace of the Drowned we're in a wet and spooky Venice.

Does language influence how we think? Could it affect your conception of time, or the colours you see, or even your ability to count? These questions are at the heart of what's called the theory of linguistic relativity, sometimes known as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Your teacher is Tiger Webb, the ABC's Language Specialist.

Does language influence how we think? Could it affect your conception of time, or the colours you see, or even your ability to count? These questions are at the heart of what's called the theory of linguistic relativity, sometimes known as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Your teacher is Tiger Webb, the ABC's Language Specialist.

Does language influence how we think? Could it affect your conception of time, or the colours you see, or even your ability to count? These questions are at the heart of what's called the theory of linguistic relativity, sometimes known as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Your teacher is Tiger Webb, the ABC's Language Specialist.

Language specialist Tiger Webb joins Kate while Cassie is away this week, to discuss Blair James' Bernard and Pat, Patricia Engel's Infinite Country and Haruki Murakami's short story collection First Person Singular - with novelist Ronnie Scott and scholar Dominique Hecq

In this episode of Word for Word, we are joined by Tiger Webb from the ABC to chat about the inaugural Macquarie Dictionary Word of the Decade. Find our which words have had staying power and which have fallen out of use.  Join us as we explore our language: the ways we use it, the ways we abuse it, and the ways we ultimately change it. Read more about Word for Word at macquariedictionary.com.au/podcast

How's your English grammar? Are you someone who always corrects or are you corrected? Take a listen to this week's grammatical lesson with the ABC's language expert Tiger Webb.

How's your English grammar? Are you someone who always corrects or are you corrected? Take a listen to this week's grammatical lesson with the ABC's language expert Tiger Webb.

How's your English grammar? Are you someone who always corrects or are you corrected? Take a listen to this week's grammatical lesson with the ABC's language expert Tiger Webb.

How's your English grammar? Are you someone who always corrects or are you corrected? Take a listen to this week's grammatical lesson with the ABC's language expert Tiger Webb.

You might see a word or phrase suddenly pop up over and over again in the news, or in your office, that you find incredibly annoying.  What's the origin of these words, are they new or in fact quite old? Take a listen to this week's lesson with the ABC's language expert Tiger Webb.

You might see a word or phrase suddenly pop up over and over again in the news, or in your office, that you find incredibly annoying.  What’s the origin of these words, are they new or in fact quite old? Take a listen to this week’s lesson with the ABC’s language expert Tiger Webb.

You might see a word or phrase suddenly pop up over and over again in the news, or in your office, that you find incredibly annoying.  What’s the origin of these words, are they new or in fact quite old? Take a listen to this week’s lesson with the ABC’s language expert Tiger Webb.

When a language is shifting from being spoken by a whole community to being spoken only by older people, it’s crucial to get the kids engaged with the language again. But kids don’t always appreciate the interests of their elders, especially when global popular culture seems more immediately exciting. One idea? Make stories from pop culture, featuring characters like Dumbledore and Batman, but in the local language. In this episode, your host Gretchen McCulloch interviews Dr Ake Nicholas, a linguist and native speaker of Cook Islands Māori, the lesser known relative of New Zealand Māori. Ake combines her her work as a Lecturer at Massey University, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa, University of New Zealand, with having her students create resources for young Cook Islands Maori learners, especially video stories from pop culture. We also talk about Kōhanga Reo, or language nests, a method for language revitalization that was first developed for New Zealand Māori and has spread around the world, and the social situations around Cook Islands Māori and New Zealand Māori. This month’s bonus episode is about how people in the media know how to pronounce names correctly. It’s an interview with Tiger Webb, who makes the pronunciation guide for the ABC, recorded at our liveshow in Sydney. We get enthusiastic about words, style guides, emoji and more! Lauren and Tiger also quiz Gretchen on whether she’s learned any Australianisms on her visit to Australia, and Gretchen fires back with a few Canadianisms of her own. Feel like you’re in a cosy room of friendly linguistics enthusiasts by supporting Lingthusiasm on Patreon to gain access to this and 26 more bonus episodes. patreon.com/lingthusiasm For links to everything mentioned in this episode, including a map of the Cook Islands and the videos that Ake's students made, go to https://lingthusiasm.com/post/184283009071/lingthusiasm-episode-31-pop-culture-in-cook

Scottish author William Boyd on his latest novel Love is Blind — an homage to Anton Chekhov, the apostrophe wars with Tiger Webb and Louisa Fitzhardinge, bookseller Elias Greig on his funny encounters with customers, and six year old school children chose their favourite reads.

Over centuries, or even within a lifetime, the meaning of words in the English language changes. ABC language expert Tiger Webb takes you on a journey through time with a selection of words whose meaning or pronunciation has changed.

Over centuries, or even within a lifetime, the meaning of words in the English language changes. ABC language expert Tiger Webb takes you on a journey through time with a selection of words whose meaning or pronunciation has changed.

As the oft-repeated phrase goes, the Eskimos have 400 words for snow. Tiger wonders if this is true, why isn't there a single word to describe his own personal abomination. Stick around for an entirely inappropriate and massive announcement. Join our mailing list at NailedItPodcast.com 

It's that time! Take a peek behind the scenes with us as Macquarie Dictionary chooses its 2017 Word of the Year.    We sidle into the secret Word of the Year committee meeting, featuring guest judges Dr Karl and Tiger Webb of ABC Language. The editors lament the worst evergreen query - "But It's Two Words!" - and throw a tiny bit of shade at other dictionaries' picks (youthquake, anyone?). And finally, Adrik overcomes an obstacle.   Read more about Word for Word at macquariedictionary.com.au/podcast

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. Or would it? In this episode, we dive headfirst into the history of naming. Tiger Webb from ABC Language helps us get to grips with given name trends, surname extinction and Australian place naming; the Macquarie Dictionary editors peel back the secret stories behind everyday eponyms; and Kate is hard at work cuddling babies.   Read more about Word for Word at macquariedictionary.com.au/podcast

This session was recorded at the Audiocraft conference in March 2016. It features Australian radio making hero Joel Werner in conversation with Tiger Webb. www.audiocraft.com.au. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.