 The emcee was John McWhorter, whom you may know from the Lexicon Valley podcast. And the judges were other podcasters, Gretchen McCulloch from the Lingthusiasm podcast. There was Patrick Cox from the subtitle podcast formerly of The World in Words. Ben Zimmer, who writes about language for The Wall Street Journal. And Ann Curzan, who does a language podcast for Michigan Radio, was there. Lane Green, who writes the language column for The Economist, was also one of the judges.