It's the annual parade of Bonus Bits - things this year's guests said that I couldn't fit into their episodes,... more

In Lexicat part 1, we met the author Mary Robinette Kowal and her cat Elsie, and learned about how they... more

Elsie the cat has a set of 120 buttons programmed with words. She uses them to lie, swear, apologise, express... more

In 15th and 16th century Scotland, in the highest courts of the land, you'd find esteemed poets hurling insults at... more

There's so much more to say about Singlish after last episode that we're saying some more of it this episode.... more

"If you grow up being told that one of your first languages, Singlish, is actually a bad version of an... more

This is the Tranquillusionist, in which I, Helen Zaltzman, give your brain a break by temporarily supplanting your interior monologue... more

I can scarce believe that I've made 200 episodes of this show, but here we are! To celebrate, here is... more

Next episode is the 200th, therefore this is the 199th. I raid the 66 pages of ideas for episodes I... more

Since 2019, Marwan Kaabour has been collecting Arabic slang words used by and about queer people, first for the online... more