This is a transcript of a Subtitle podcast episode. Patrick Cox: You know what’s bonkers? Americans using the word ‘bonkers.’ I thought of ‘bonkers’ as one of those words with its own geography and borders, something that if you use it in America, you’d be met with blank stares. But actually bonkers made it to the United States long…

This is a transcript of a Subtitle podcast episode. Subtitle is made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor. Patrick Cox: When languages fade away — when people stop speaking them — they often take their secrets with them. Some languages though, they fade really slowly. They stick…

This is a transcript of a Subtitle podcast episode. Subtitle is made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor. Ciku Theuri: Hey y’all. It’s Ciku Theuri and I’m back for our last installment of our three-part series on Black American English, or African American English — whatever you’d…

This is a transcript of a Subtitle podcast episode. Subtitle is made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor. Ciku Theuri: Hey y’all. It’s Ciku Theuri. I’m back with a new episode in our series on Black American English. …

This is a transcript of a Subtitle podcast episode. Subtitle is made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor. Patrick Cox: Hi, Patrick Cox here. We’re going to do something different in this episode — actually, in the next three episodes, because we’re about to dive into a…

This is a transcript of a Subtitle podcast episode. Kavita Pillay: A note before we begin. There’s a brief discussion of a school shooting in this episode. It starts at about 11 minutes in and is done 15 minutes in, if you want to skip over it. Subtitle is made possible in part by a major grant from the…

This is a transcript of a Subtitle podcast episode. Subtitle is made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor. Hub & Spoke, audio collective. Patrick Cox: It’s a warm Saturday evening in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I’m sitting at a restaurant table with a half dozen other people. We’re outside…

This is a transcript of a Subtitle podcast episode. Subtitle is made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor. Patrick Cox: It’s a warm, sunny late afternoon. Central Park is teeming with people, strolling, chatting, flirting, laughing. …

This is a transcript of a Subtitle podcast episode. Subtitle is made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor. Patrick Cox: In 2012, Michael Erard was living in Portland, Maine. He was foraging for wild blackberries on the edge of town one day, when something on the ground…