Pieces I wrote for popular media
I blog about for Sciblogs as Lippy Linguist.
I was interviewed on the Guardian Science Weekly postcast (July 2018).
The Conversation story with Laura Haughey and Kellye Bensley One story, two languages: sign and spoken language share the theatre stage, June 2018.
Guest story for the SpinOff on grammar Does Grammar Really Matter?, 3 May 2018.
In April 2018, I did a PechaKucha talk about the languages I speak. Here is a write-up about it in the Waipa Post (video to come soon).
The Conversation story The Slippery Grammar of Spoken vs. Written English, March 2018 (more than 7,000 hits).
The Conversation story Kia Ora: How Māori Borrowings Shape New Zealand English, September 2017 (more than 5,000 hits).
NZ Royal Society blog piece "Words As Windows into our Minds", for the 150-years NZRS celebrations promoting linguistics research, also archived on SciBlogs, July 2017.
Blog entry "Does Big Data Equal Big Problems?" published in Fully (sic), 13 November 2015.
Blog entry "How to lose your North, be gone with a raft, and have a bird" published in Fully (sic), 27 August 2015.
Opinion Piece entitled "Whose Words Are They Anyway" published in Waikato Times, 6 March 2013.
Letter entitled "Languages With Soul" published in the New Scientist, Vol. 185: p. 33, 5 March 2005.
Book Review entitled "A Beautiful Mind" published in The New Zealand Listener , reviewing John Casti's "Mathematical Mountaintops", 183 (May 18-24) 2002.
Media attention of my research
My story in the Conversation received attention in the Waikato Times, "There's a reason we're bending the rules on speech grammar" - 26 March 2018.
My paper on 'Heaps' in New Zealand English receives media attention in:
Quoted in New Zealand Herald, Canvas Magazine by Lucy Corry for "2 sick 4 work soz: When is it not okay to text?", 19 August 2017.
TV Interview on TV3, the AM show with Duncan Garner, 30 January 2018 at 6:51am,
Radio NZ Interview with Jesse Mulligan , 29 January 2018, 1:22pm,
NZ Herald piece by Jamie Morton: "Why 'heaps' has heaps more meaning than you think" and in print, page A4, 29 January 2018.
Interview for the New Zealand Herald by Jane Phare for "Are we all on the Same Page", 11 June 2017.
Nicole Brewer interviews me on 18 February 2017, 7pm about grammar on CBS3 local news in Philadelphia, US.
My project on the "The dating game of loanwords" receives media attention:
Radio interview on FreeFM Community Radio at 8:45am, on 13 May, 2016 about my TED-ED Lesson.Dale Husband interview on Waatea Radio on 5 Dec 2016 at 8:10am,
New Zealand Herald video story on 4 Dec 2016.
Interview on jargon in the Waikato Times in Saturday Edition, 14 March, 2016.
Interview on taboo language (profanity) in the Waikato Times in Saturday Edition, 24 October (& front page on 21 October), 2015.
Interview on literacy and technology use in the Waikato Times in Saturday Edition, 29 August, 2015.
Our Eurasian language family work receives media attention in:
New Scientist ,
The Guardian
Washington Post,
Featured in a rap song by Zach Sherwin,
I was interviewed about it on National Radio on 13 May 2013 at 14:10.
Our paper on the Homeric Epics receives media attention in:
Scientific American,
History of the Ancient World,
NBC News,
Science Daily.