# Are you pronouncing 'caramel' wrong? | ACCENTS (ft. Valerie Fridland) Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/words-unravelled-with-robwords-and-jess-zafarris-6871407/are-you-pronouncing-caramel-wrong-accents-ft-valerie-fridland Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/words-unravelled-with-robwords-and-jess-zafarris-6871407/are-you-pronouncing-caramel-wrong-accents-ft-valerie-fridland.md Podcast: [Words Unravelled with RobWords and Jess Zafarris](https://stenobird.com/podcast/words-unravelled-with-robwords-and-jess-zafarris-6871407) Published: 2026-07-15T05:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://audioboom.com/posts/8925937 Audio file: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/audioboom.com/posts/8925937.mp3?modified=1783624032&sid=5128892&source=rss Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/words-unravelled-with-robwords-and-jess-zafarris-6871407/episodes/are-you-pronouncing-caramel-wrong-accents-ft-valerie-fridland Duration seconds: 2963 ## Resource Why do Americans and Brits have the accents they have? Sociolinguist, professor and author Valerie Fridland joins Rob and Jess this week to discuss why we talk funny. ðŸŪ Does 'caramel' have one or two syllables? ðŸŠķ Do Americans sound more like Shakespeare than Brits? ðŸŽĐ Why do some accents sound 'posher' than others? These questions answered, an many more, in another gloriously nerdy episode of Words Unravelled. 📘 VALERIE'S BOOKS 📕 Why We Talk Funny: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/744046/why-we-talk-funny-by-valerie-fridland/ Like, Literally, Dude: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/671558/like-literally-dude-by-valerie-fridland/ 👕 OUR MERCH 👚 US SHOP: https://wordsunravelledshop.myspreadshop.com/ EU/UK SHOP: https://wordsunravelledshop.myspreadshop.net/ ðŸŽĨ WATCH THIS EPISODE: https://youtu.be/t71jZBSfack ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/words-unravelled-with-robwords-and-jess-zafarris-6871407/episodes/are-you-pronouncing-caramel-wrong-accents-ft-valerie-fridland/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/words-unravelled-with-robwords-and-jess-zafarris-6871407/are-you-pronouncing-caramel-wrong-accents-ft-valerie-fridland.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.