
Language and linguistics used up some great bandwidth this past week. Check out these podcasts for some excellent listens for your weekend:
- What do Huckleberry Hound, decals, and Yiddish have in common? Ben Zimmer makes the cockamamie connection on the latest episode of Slate’s Lexicon Valley:
- Linguist Arika Okrent, whose work you may have read in Mental Floss, answers questions about questions on the newest Freakonomics podcast
- Author and journalist Stefan Fatsis discusses his fascinating piece on the future of dictionaries with the Slate Culture Gabfest panel: