This is the illusionist in which I, Helen Zotsman, know what language did last summer,

and Pink Trip in Com Married the Garage.

Coming up in today's show, a word that has had an unusually huge variety of meanings

in a fairly short time span.

It's been used for such things as oysters, musical instruments, space stations, God, hats,

and most recently for human beings.

Content notes, this episode discusses sexuality and pairs well with illusionist episode 79

about the shifting usage of the word queer.

Sure, I'll recommend my own episodes like a wine pairing.

Since I don't drink alcohol, this is all I got.

On with the show.

If you talk about something a certain way for enough time over a sustained period of time,

then it will likely affect the way people perceive that issue, right?

So if something is framed in a certain way over a sustained period of time, you always

hear the same words for something, then eventually it frames the way you think about it.

In this case, he's been studying the use and framing of the word bisexual.

And so I think bisexual, the word bisexual, and the people as well with the word, that's

how to really rough go of it.

My name is Mark Wilkinson.

I am a PhD student at Lancaster University, and I'm studying representations of the queer

community in the British press between 1957 and 2017.

Mark collected every single appearance of the word bisexual in the Times newspaper from

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