(Photo by Erin Hall.)
The observation in question belongs to faculty member J. K. Chambers and comes from a 2017 interview in the Washington Post.
Our department has a large number of Jeopardy! enthusiasts and this is at least our third encounter with the show in the last few years. Earlier in 2018, alumna Alexandra D'Arcy (Ph.D. 2005, now at the University of Victoria) was also featured in a clue on Jeopardy! - one pertaining to her 2017 book Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in Context: Eight Hundred Years of LIKE, an expansion of her U of T doctoral dissertation. About two years before, a subset of our sociolinguists got to cross paths with Alex Trebek in person. However, please note that whether there is a sociolinguistics-Jeopardy! conspiracy occurring behind the scenes is not a matter we are in a position to address publicly.
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