#1098 Karen Stollznow - B*tch: The Journey of a Word
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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Karen Stalsnow. She is a researcher at Griffith University and a host of Monster Talk, an award-winning science-based podcast. And today we're talking about her latest book, Bitch, The Journey of a Word.
So, Karen, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to have you one. Thank you so much. It's good to be here. So since we're going to talk about the history, the sort of journey of the word bitch, as you suggest in the title of your book, where does it come from?
I mean, what are its origins? Well, it's really complicated. I think a lot of people would think, oh, the word has just been around for 50 years, 100 years, that it's got a short history, but it has a very long history. It's been around for over 1,000 years and it goes back to Old English, the version that uh that we're familiar with today.
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