53: Mailbag of Compounds (with Tiger Webb)

Language titan Tiger Webb is helping us with our voluminous Mailbag. Hedvig is giving her annual Eurovision language roundup. And we’re sorting through the lexicon of the 2022 Australian election.

• Is MAYBE a compound word? What about ANOTHER, or GARBAGE?
• Are GONNA and WANNA portmanteaus?
• What does it take to be a linguist?