Martha Barnette is one half of the linguistics podcast A Way With Words, and author of the new book Friends With Words: Adventures in Languageland.
Her lifelong love of language has led her through some of the toughest questions lexicography has to offer, and she's answering questions from our live listening audience.
Why do we FALL pregnant? How can we use PRETTY to say something is "pretty ugly"? And once and for all, why do we really say "the whole nine yards"?
Video for this episode: https://youtu.be/aPikLncj2xI
Timestamps (audio)
Start: 0:00
Cold open: 0:27
Intros: 2:02
Chat with Martha about Friends With Words: 5:42
On Martha's life and language: 11:10
Related or Not: 36:27
Questions for Martha: 56:25
The Reads: 1:25:40
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