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Every week on Butter No Parsnips, your hosts Emily Moyers and Kyle Imperatore take you on an adventure through the weird, wacky, wonderful, and sometimes wicked history of one wayside word.
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202. Hiatus: More Than One Kind of Break (opens the original)
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Kyle, Emily, and someone who looks mysteriously like Seth have gathered to unpack a word that’s been a fixture of the media world for… how long? The trio will discuss chasms in the earth, hard-to-say words, the Twin Peaks revival and more as they explore the word ‘hiatus’. Our hosts discover that, long before any celebrities were going on hiatus, earlier ‘breaks’ were a whole lot more physical. Turns out we were talking about holes in clouds, ill-fitting clothes, and summer holidays in Washingto
201. Language Revitalization: How Linguists Revive Lost Languages with Danny Hieber (opens the original)
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This week, Kyle and Emily talk with linguist Daniel W. Hieber, Ph.D. ( @linguisticdiscovery ) about typology, his work with the Chitimacha tribe, and what it takes to revitalize a language. And as you might imagine, it takes a lot. What can a single language reveal about how all languages grow, change, and relate to one another? Sharing his experience working directly with the Chitimacha to learn and document their language, Hieber explores language isolates, the standards for language documenta
PATREON UNLOCKED - Butter'd Parsnips, Ep. 42: “The BNP Bouquet I” (opens the original)
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This is a special look at the Patreon exclusive podcast Butter’d Parsnips available on our Patreon . For just $5 a month, you gain access to our entire backlog as well as a bunch of other fun perks. It’s springtime! And Emily, Kyle and Seth are wandering through fields of flowers in this episode of Butter’d Parsnips, plucking from their research the origins of some common flower names. Daffodils, tulips, and even forget-me-nots are arranged by these floral friends as they discover flowers are ac
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