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78: Forensic Linguistics, Really (with Helen Fraser, Georgina Heydon, Diana Eades, Seán Roberts, and Steph Rennick)

Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

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The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

It used to be called Fraser Island because white folks named it after a Scotswoman who ended up shipwrecked there in the 1830s. She told huge fake stories about how she was held captive by them and that they were monsters and horrible and mistreated her. To the Baccilla people of Queensland, that island was always called Guri. And for a while, the two names coexisted. But this, this week, they finally dropped the name of that Scottish interloper and it's just Guri now.

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