Bonus Episodes
Bonus episodes are posted once a month on the first Thursday for people who support us on Patreon at the Ling-thusiast level and above. Plus, Patreon members get access to all of our previous bonus episodes.
Here are a few of our favourites to get you started!
- Our very first swearing bonus episode, now unlocked! (available for free)
- The grammar of swearing
- Our linguistic book recommendations
- Linguistic 〰️✨ i l l u s i o n s ✨〰️
- Counting systems in various languages
- The episode-episode (reduplication)
- Secret codes and the joy of cryptic word puzzles
- Xenolinguistics 👽
Just like the main episodes, all bonus episodes have transcripts, which are linked to from each episode’s Patreon post.
Here’s the full list of bonus episodes:
- The Mysterious Voynich Manuscript - Interview with Claire Bowern
- World Linguistics Day
- What’s in a nym? Synonyms, antonyms, and so many more
- ¡Pos ya está! Translating Because Internet into Spanish with Miguel Sánchez Ibáñez
- Reading linguistic landscapes on street signs
- Why sci-fi gestures live long and prosper - Crossover with Imaginary Worlds
- Our very first swearing bonus episode, now unlocked! (available for free)
- Advice #2 - Fun linguistic experiments, linguistic etiquette, and language learning scenarios
- The linguistics of kissing 😘
- Linguist Celebrities
- Rock, paper, scissors, Gesture book, and a secret project - Survey results and general updates
- What makes for beautiful writing, scientifically speaking
- Crochet vocal tract, grammar is a team sport, gifs, and soy sauce - Deleted scenes from Jacq Jones, Emily M. Bender, and Tom Scott team interviews
- Metaphors be with you! Lingthusiasm x Let’s Learn Everything crossover episode
- Linguistic Travel - Estonia, Mundolingua, and Martha’s Vineyard
- Xenolinguistics 👽
- Behind the Scenes on the Tom Scott Language Files
- Don’t you love to do a “do” episode?
- The best and worst comparatives episode
- Linguistic mixups - spoonerisms, mondegreens, and eggcorns
- Secret codes and the joy of cryptic word puzzles
- Inner voice, mental pictures, and other shapes for thoughts
- How we made vowel plots with Bethany Gardner
- Are thumbs fingers and which episode of Lingthusiasm are you? Survey results and a new personality quiz
- Themself, Basque ergativity cartoons, and bad swearing ideas - Deleted scenes from Kirby Conrod, Itxaso Rodriguez-Ordoñez, and Jo Walton and Ada Palmer
- Frak, smeg, and more swearing in fiction - Ex Urbe Ad Astra interview with Jo Walton and Ada Palmer
- Linguistic Advice - Challenging grammar snobs, finding linguistic community, accents in singing, and more
- Postcards from linguistics summer camp
- Field Notes on linguistic fieldwork - Interview with Martha Tsutsui Billins
- How we make Lingthusiasm transcripts - Interview with Sarah Dopierala
- LingthusiASMR - The Harvard Sentences
- Linguistic jobs beyond academia
- 2022 Survey Results - kiki/bouba, synesthesia fomo, and pluralizing emoji
- Neopronouns, gender-neutral vocab, and why linguistic gender even exists - Liveshow Q&A with Kirby Conrod
- When books speculate on the future of English
- Singapore, New Zealand, and a favourite linguistics paper - 2023 Year Ahead Chat
- Parrots, art and what even is a word - deleted scenes from Kat Gupta, Lucy Maddox and Randall Munroe interviews
- Speakest Thou Ye Olde English?
- 103 ways for kids to learn languages
- Linguistics and science communication - Interview with Liz McCullough
- Behind the scenes on making an aesthetic IPA chart - Interview with Lucy Maddox
- Using a rabbit to get kids chatting for science
- Language inside an MRI machine - Interview with Saima Malik-Moraleda
- There’s like, so much to like about “like”
- What makes a swear word feel sweary? A &⩐#⦫& Liveshow
- Approaching word games like a linguist - Interview with Nicole Holliday and Ben Zimmer of Spectacular Vernacular
- Behind the scenes on how linguists come up with research topics
- Emoji, Mongolian, and Multiocular O ꙮ - Dispatches from the Unicode Conference
- Linguistics puzzles for fun and olympiad glory
- Linguistic 〰️✨ i l l u s i o n s ✨〰️
- Lingwiki and linguistics on Wikipedia
- Q&A with Emily Gref from language museum Planet Word
- Sentient plants, proto-internet, and more lingfic about quirky communication
- Language under the influence
- Gotta test ‘em all - The linguistics of Pokémon names
- Lingthusiasm liveshow: The listener talks back (on backchannelling)
- Talking to babies and small children
- The episode-episode (reduplication)
- 100th episode Q&A about naming dogs, modifying English, linguistics research, and more
- Deleted scenes - Outtakes from Lingthusiasm interviews
- Q&A with lexicographer Emily Brewster of Merriam-Webster
- Crash Course Linguistics behind the scenes with Jessi Grieser
- The most esteemed honorifics episode
- The quick brown pangram jumps over the lazy dog
- LingComm on a budget (plus the Lingthusiasm origin story)
- Tones, drums, and whistles - Linguistics and music
- Doing linguistics with kids
- A myriad of numbers - Counting systems across languages
- When letters have colours and time is a braid - The linguistics of synesthesia
- Teaching linguistics to yourself and other people
- Generating a Lingthusiasm episode using a neural net
- What might English be like in a couple hundred years?
- The sounds of sheep, earthquakes, and ice cream - Onomatopoeia
- Reading fiction like a linguist
- Jobs, locations, family, and invention - Surnames
- Behind the scenes on Because Internet (Q&A)
- Welcome aboard the metaphor train!
- Words from your family - Familects!
- North, left, or towards the sea? With guest Alice Gaby
- Talking with dogs, horses, ravens, dolphins, bees, and other animals
- How do radio announcers know how to pronounce all the names? With guest Tiger Webb
- Adapting your language to other people
- How the internet is making English better (liveshow from Melbourne)
- Naming people (and especially babies)
- Q&A about old words, ears, Australian English, and more
- What’s it really like at academic conferences?
- Bringing up bilingual babies
- Hyperforeignisms
- Emoji, Gesture, and the International Congress of Linguists - Behind the scenes on the linguistics conference circuit
- Homonyms, homophones, and homographs
- Forensic linguistics
- What you should know if you’re considering applying to linguistics grad school
- The Poetry of Memes: Roses are red in the icebox
- The grammar of swearing
- Creating languages for fun and learning
- We are all linguistic geniuses: Interview with Daniel Midgley of Talk the Talk
- Liveshow Q and eh
- Is X a sandwich? Solving the word-meaning argument
- Hark, a liveshow! So, like, what’s up with discourse markers?
- DIY linguistic research
- Language play
- Hypercorrection
- Doggo linguistics behind the scenes
- How to explain linguistics to employers (text chat)
- How to teach yourself linguistics
- Swearing and pseudo-swears
About Lingthusiasm
A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne.
Weird and deep conversations about the hidden language patterns that you didn't realize you were already making.
New episodes (free!) the third Thursday of the month.
