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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30327-8/fulltext

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Here is an informative article on gender in language and how it shapes us (ignore the headline given in the URL): https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20201006-are-some-languages-more-sexist-than-others?ocid=ww.social.link.email

Is it all a matter of prosody? It’s complicated. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-linguists-are-fascinated-by-the-american-jewish-accent?utm_source=share_by_email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mailto_share

This article explains how we express tones of voice in texting and in video: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/09/style/tone-indicators-online.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20201210&instance_id=24891&nl=the-morning&regi_id=119842915&segment_id=46542&te=1&user_id=0a9e615b84ef22dc186607f2166707e3

https://languages.oup.com/word-of-the-year/2020/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/excavation-viking-ship-burial-continues-new-research-reveals-history-elite-scandinavian-society-180976273/

An analysis of the DNA of viking remains yield some very interesting results:https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/09/viking-was-job-description-not-matter-heredity-massive-ancient-dna-study-shows

Here is an interesting discussion of the meaning of the term “BIPOC” (published in Good Housekeeping, of all places). The article makes the claim that the term was coined in Canada but provides no details: https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/a33436617/what-does-bipoc-mean/

Kevin Stroud has produced (to date) 139 podcasts about the History of English (each 1 hour in length). Try browsing his list of episodes: https://historyofenglishpodcast.com