A two-time National Endowment for the Humanities fellow, Dr. Valerie Fridland is foundation professor of linguistics at University of Nevada, Reno and the author of Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English and Why We Talk Funny: The Real Story Behind Our Accents. She writes a blog for Psychology Today, is a guest writer for the popular Grammar Girl podcast and has a lecture series, Language and Society, available with The Great Courses.  Valerie has appeared as a language expert for outlets such as NPR, Armchair Expert, NBC, ABC, The Today Show, BBC, Washington Post, New York Post, Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times.