# 80: Mailbag of TLAs

An episode of [Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/436133392), 13 Aug 2023, 1 h 31 min.

Audio: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/talkthetalk/80_Mailbag_of_TLAs.mp3?dest-id=897956

Listeners have once again sent us some great questions, and we have answers! • Why do we TALK SHIT and not SPEAK SHIT? • Do we KEEP OUT, or STAY OUT? • Why are so many acronyms three letters long? • How do we break young people out of the prescriptivist mindset? • Isn't "folk etymology" just… etymology? • Can you think of any anagrams that are also synonyms? Plus our favourite game, Related or Not!

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