53: Mailbag of Compounds (with Tiger Webb)

Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language. - En podcast af Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård

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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?

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