Gretchen McCulloch's Newsletter

October, November, & December 2024

Lingthusiasm Makes the New York Times Word Nerd Top Five

May 9

April 2025

July, August, & September 2024

Lo! An un-detached Eurotrip!

Apr 22

February 2025

April, May, & June 2024: LingComm Grants, a paper about Crash Course Linguistics, and boopguistics

Hello! In official research news, during the second quarter of 2024, the Crash Course Linguistics team published a case study on how the series came…

Feb 10

December 2024

Jan, Feb, & Mar 2024: Crossword puzzles and vowel charts

Hello!

Dec 24, 2024

2023 Year in Review

A pretty typical year with podcasting, conferences, book recs, silly example sentences, and a move to bluesky

Dec 11, 2024

Oct, Nov & Dec 2023: there’dn’t’ve and ceiling wax

2 conferences, 2 Language Files videos, 3 novels, 7 years of Lingthusiasm, and a silly Shakespeare audiobook reading

Dec 3, 2024

January 2024

August-September 2023: Etymology isn't Destiny merch and an academic article about lingcomm

Hello! I joined onto a fun project this month, Zach Weinersmith of the webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal is running a Kickstarter for his book…

Jan 17, 2024

December 2023

June-July 2023: Lingstitute and Merriam-Webster

Hello!

Dec 29, 2023

May 2023: Spanish Because Internet, True Biz, and Word Magic

Hello!

Dec 29, 2023

March-April 2023: Bluesky, Barbie bouba/kiki, and Bea Wolf

Hello!

Dec 1, 2023

May 2023

February 2023: #LingComm23 and liveshow

Hello! This month was the second International Conference on Linguistics Communication, #LingComm2023. I was extremely delighted to not be on the…

May 23, 2023

January 2023: Denver and deleted scenes

Hello! I started the year in Denver, Colorado at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, where I co-hosted the Five Minute Linguist…

May 22, 2023