Lady, woman, and girl carry different signals depending on speaker, listener, age, number, and setting. Rachel, a 22-year-old from upstate New York, heard a hostel roommate described as a lady and pictured someone older. Her Wisconsin friend meant...
What’s the female equivalent of a man cave? Some people are promoting the term she shed. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Man Cave and She Shed” We’ve heard about man caves. Do you have a man cave, Grant...
It’s the art of constructive feedback: If you’re a teacher with a mountain of papers to grade, you may find yourself puzzling over which kinds of notes in the margins work best. Martha and Grant discuss strategies for effective paper...
Paul from Milwaukee heard college women calling each other dude and wondered when that started. When young women use it with each other, it’s mainly in the vocative sense, a way to get attention at the start of a sentence, as in dude...
Dude! We’re used to hearing the word “dude” applied to guys. But increasingly, young women use the word “dude” to address each other. Grant and Martha talk about linguistic research about the meaning and uses of...
There’s a word where the first two letters signify a male, the first three signify a female, the first four signify a great man, and the whole word means a great woman. Do you know it? This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “The...
