Dr Erica Brozovsky: The surprising origin of gossip

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Dr Erica Brozovsky: The surprising origin of gossip

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Radio New Zealand

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You may have heard the saying 'Gossip is the Devil's radio', but does gossip actually deserve the bad rap it gets? Dr Erica Brozovsky is a sociolinguist, and the host and writer of popular PBS Youtube series 'Otherwords', an educational series about language and linguistics. Erica's videos explore the weird and whacky lesser-known history behind words and language, they've garnered hundreds of thousands of views. She argues that gossip is not only a part of our human nature, a tool that's hel...

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05 November 2023

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Sunday Morning

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https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/2018914071/dr-erica-brozovsky-the-surprisi...

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