Host, Meg Harris, is joined by Chicago-based publishing editor, Lauren Kelliher to discuss Amanda Montell's, Wordslut. Amanda Montell is a linguist. She studies Linguistics, which she defines as “the scientific study of how language works in the real world.” Under that umbrella is socio-linguistics - the study of language and human sociology interest.

This episode extracts the key themes, highlights fun anecdotes, and explores the hand we can play in evolving our everyday language towards gender equality.