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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A new website, Mi Caregiver Connection, uses a "one-stop shopping" approach to help Michigan caregivers find support and resources. -
As we merrily roll along, we might be moving and shaking, with maybe some shaping in there too. -
We will share some fun linguistic facts about lickety-split, lickety-split.
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From 17th-century England to modern-day gratuities, the evolution of "tip" is a story of linguistic twists and turns that ultimately lead to a surprising conclusion: it's not what you think it stands for.
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Historically, bloodletting and bloodshed have been different things, but the line has blurred. Linguist Anne Curzan breaks down the evolution of words.
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When you’re smack dab in the middle of something, you can’t be more in the middle of it.
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English spelling can be a museum of earlier pronunciations, as we see in words like "night," "through," and "cough."
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Given that tuna is a fish, it can seem unnecessary to call that out in the compound tuna fish.
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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.
