Rebecca Hector
All Things Considered HostRebecca Hector is the host of All Things Considered at Michigan Public. She also co-hosts Michigan Public's weekly language podcast That’s What They Say with English professor Anne Curzan.
After earning degrees in English and American Studies from Michigan State University, Hector began her radio career as a newsroom intern at WKAR in East Lansing. She completed additional news internships at WBEZ Chicago and KAJX Aspen.
Hector first came to Michigan Public in 2014 as a producer for Morning Edition. She served as a general assignment reporter and fill-in host before becoming the station’s full-time Weekend Edition host in 2016. She became the All Things Considered host in 2023.
When she’s not on the airwaves, Hector enjoys hiking, Korean food and hunting for vinyl records. She’s also Bruce Springsteen’s number one fan.
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Given that tuna is a fish, it can seem unnecessary to call that out in the compound tuna fish. -
When we eat up or fix up or heal up or hurry up, we’re not actually moving in an upward direction.
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Funnily enough, two listeners wrote to us this summer about the phrase funnily enough.
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Working out with dumbbells may be a fitness craze now, but the fitness craze that started it all sounds even better.
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If you’d just as soon not learn about an eggcorn that some language pundits really dislike, then you might want to stop reading now.
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We can be angry or infuriated or outraged or furious or livid or incensed, all of which make us fit to be tied.
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Usage guide writers, seeing some confusion afoot, tell us to be wary about the distinction between "wary” and “weary.”
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Even though "mug shots" do not involve drinking or "mugs" in that sense, we can draw a historical connection between these two mugs.
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From campfire wood to troubleshooting, English usage provides plenty of curiosities for another lightning round.
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Only some English speakers have grammars that allow them to say “We might could make that better” or “We might should eat before the movie.”
