Bonus 7: DIY Linguistic Research (Patreon)

What's the etymology of this word? When did people start using that thing? How is this new slang term used? 

Answering common linguistic questions is often a matter of where to look. In this bonus episode, Gretchen and Lauren talk about our favourite freely accessible linguistics research tools, from Etymonline to corpora, and how to get access to other kinds of linguistics resources when you're not at a university and don't have a research budget. 

We also talk about the kind of research we'd like to see more of if we weren't constrained by money.

Finally, you can help researchers by participating in online research data collection. We list some of our favourites - if you have any others link to them in the comments! 

Links:

• Etymonline 
• Cambridge Grammar of English Language 
• Chicago Manual of Style 
• Buzzfeed Styleguide 
• Blogs with good posts on usage: Stan Carey, Language Log, Lingua Franca 
• BYU's English Language Corpora: COCA, COHA, GloWbE, NOW, and more
• Google Ngram 
• Using Ngram to look at hit and/or miss, monger, and using wildcards  
• Google Scholar 
• BLIP lab online games 
• The Great Language Game 
• Results from The Great Language Game 
• UGent English Vocabulary Game 
• Games with Words 

This topic was nominated by Ogden Deacon (thanks Ogden!), and voted on by all of our fabulous patrons. 

You can listen to this episode on this page, via the Patreon RSS or download the mp3. A transcript is available for this episode as a Google Doc. Lingthusiasm is also on Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter.  Email us at lingthusiasm [at] gmail [dot] com or chat to us on the Patreon page.

Gretchen is on Twitter as @GretchenAMcC and blogs at All Things Linguistic. Lauren is on Twitter as @superlinguo and blogs at Superlinguo.

Lingthusiasm is created by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne. Our producer is Claire Gawne and our music is ‘Ancient City’ by The Triangles. Recorded on August 21 2017.