Karen Stolznow is a well studied linguist and a spectacularly famous podcasting skeptic, who has published the following items:
God Bless America: Strange and Unusual Religious Beliefs and Practices in the United States
Would You Believe It?: Mysterious Tales From People You’d Least Expect (in which I have a chapter!)
Language Myths, Mysteries and Magic (see my review here)
Karen was our most recent guest on Ikonokast Podcast. CHECK IT OUT
I’m going to guess your chapter was about the “haunted” hotel you were in somewhere in Africa.
“This thing you call language, though. You depend on it for so very much — but is any one of you truly its master?”
– Medusan ambassador Kollos
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Is_There_in_Truth_No_Beauty%3F_(episode)