Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in the U.S.

This year, I am again grateful for all of you who listen to the show.

And now I have an interview with Rob Drummond that we recorded back in June.

Greetings, Grammar-Palusians. Thank you so much for your support. We are here today for

your bonus episode with Rob Drummond, author of Ural Talk, a fascinating book about language

and accents that's just newly out in paperback. Rob, thank you so much for being here.

Thank you very much for having me. You bet. So there are so many things left to talk about

that are fascinating about language that you covered in your book. You know, multilingualism was

something that I thought was really fascinating and the way it interplays with identity and how people feel more comfortable or do

different things in different languages or different accents. Yeah, this is, it ties in with

what we're talking about in terms of style shifting. So people talk about style shifting and code

switching. And often they'll just use the term code switching to mean to the general meaning

of, you know, changing the way you speak, whether that's switching between languages or switching

between varieties of the same language. I tend to use style shifting when we're talking about

shifting between varieties of the one language. So, example, in English, switching between different varieties of that

or different registers of that. And I think of code switching between languages, but either term is fine.

But they're very similar in a way in that there's a kind of a very functional idea of code switching

where obviously you switch in between languages because somebody can't

understand you. So say you have a group of bilingual friends and somebody joins the group

who only speaks one of the languages, then out of politeness, I guess most people would switch

what they're saying into the language that everybody can understand. That's kind of pretty functional.

But what if you're in a group of multilingual, bilingual,

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