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July 2024 Today.com
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Are you a 'Mother'? What to know about the slang word
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May 2024 Today.com
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Why do teens say, 'Fax, no printer'?
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May 2024 KJZZ The Show
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How language goes through semantic bleaching - literally
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April 2024 Today.com
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What does the slang word 'mid' really mean?
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March 2024 The Guardian
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The anti-immigrant slur US border patrol tried to ban: 'It reflects sanctioned violence'
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February 2024 Today.com
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Does your kid say 'bussin'? We'll explain.
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January 2024 New York Times
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Among Linguists, the Word of The Year is More of A Vibe
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January 2024 Today.com
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Why does your kid call you 'bruh'?
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January 2024 Today.com
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The kids are saying 'GYAT': What does it mean?
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November 2023 Harper's Bazaar
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October 2023 Harper's Bazaar India
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How Therapy-speak Became the Love Language of the Modern Workplace
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July 2023 The Cut
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The Real Meaning of Gatekeeping
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July 2023 Planet Word
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Barbiecore and the Language of Aesthetics
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April 2023 KJZZ The Show
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How 'woke' morphed from a whisper in minority community to a right-wing yell
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March 2023 CNN
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How 'ma'am' went from being a respectful word for some - but polarizing for others
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January 2023 Rolling Stone
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Why 200 Linguistic scholars decided -ussy is the word of the year
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December 2022 New York Times
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71 of our favorite facts of 2022
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October 2022 National Geographic
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Where does the love and hate for Christopher Columbus come from?
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October 2022 National Geographic España
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De dónde viene el amor y el odio hacia Critóbal Colón
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September 2022 Business Insider
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July 2022 Atlanta Black Star
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July 2022 New York Times
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January 2022 Rackham Graduate School
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​January 2022 Bustle
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There's More to "Woke" than You Think
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November 2021 Daily Beast
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Please Don't Say You'll "Hold Space" for Me. Just Do It, and Shut Up.
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September 2021 Bustle
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One Weird Coincidence of the Pandemic? Forgetting Words
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August 2021 Bustle
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Why Gen Z & Millennials Use “Elite” So Differently
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August 2021 El País
Cultura ‘woke’: ¿ha importado Europa un debate propio de Estados Unidos?
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May 2021 New York Times
Make the World Better with One of these Nine Ideas
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April 2021 New York Times
What is ‘Cheugy’? You know it when you see it.
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April 2021 University of Michigan College of Literature, Sciences, and The Arts
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March 2021 Deseret
America’s ‘Great Awokening’ Explained
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September 2020 7 News Australia
These 6 words and phrases have racist and offensive backgrounds
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July 2020 Today.com
These 11 words and phrases have racist and offensive backgrounds
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June 2020 Deadspin
Have You Ever Heard of a 'Raw and Toolsy,' 'Well-Spoken' White Player?
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June 2020 Feminist Friday Medium
Interview with Kelly Wright, Sociolinguist
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June 2020 The Economist Johnson Column
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Language is a telling clue to unacknowledged racial attitudes
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November 2019 The Undefeated ESPN
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Why do we see Myles Garrett as 'criminal'?
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August 2018 The Economist Johnson Column
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Spoken Press
August 2024 WBAI Life is Like Science Fiction
The Power of Language: How Words Shape Culture
July 2024 WBAI Life is Like Science Fiction
The Kamala Equation: Quantum Physics & The Cultural Accretion of Language about Her
June 2024 WBAI Life is Like Science Fiction
Hypergamy vs Hypogamy: Dating, gender, and the solar maximum
March 2024 Because Language
Episode 94: Mailbag of Sextillion and Three (with Kelly Wright)
March 2024 WBAI Life is Like Science Fiction
The Language of Women, Part III: Language, Its Usage, and Its Evolution
January 2024 WBAI Life is Like Science Fiction
The Language of Women, Part II: the rules of the space
December 2023 WBAI Life is Like Science Fiction
Folk Etymologies & the Habit of Language
October 2023 WBAI Life is Like Science Fiction
The Language of Women: Language, gender, and the origins of how we talk about women
August 2023 WBAI Life is Like Science Fiction
Education, Language, and Cultural Enslavement: How the loss of history and language shapes a culture
June 2023 WBAI Life is Like Science Fiction
Linguistic Imperialism: The colonization of and by language
November 2022 Because Langauge podcast Episode 64: Struggle Pile (with Kelly Wright)
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October 2022 WBAI Life is Like Science Fiction podcast Race and Colloquialisms with special guest Raciolinguist Kelly Wright
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February 2022 Global News
Word "freedom" becomes rally cry co-opted by far right, experts say
February 2022 Global News
'Deltacron' danger: Name of presumed hybrid fuels panic, experts say
December 2021 Know What You See with Brian Lowery Who do you think you're talking to?
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June 2020 The Economist Johnson Column
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Language is a telling clue to unacknowledged racial attitudes