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Episode 96
What Bette Davis, FDR, and Ralph Kramden have in common when it comes to speech.
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Why Do People in Old Movies Talk Like That?
Episode 96
On the peculiar speech patterns of early 20th century Americans.
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Billy and Me Went to the Store. Deal With It.
Episode 95
John McWhorter on what the intricacies of the future tense tell us about the unwritten rules of pronouns.
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Billy and Me Went to the Store
Episode 95
On the unwritten rules of pronouns.
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What Is a Dictionary, Really?
Episode 94
John Simpson, former editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, talks about life as a lexicographer.
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9 years, 6 months ago
What Is a Dictionary, Really?
Episode 94
A conversation with John Simpson, former editor of the Oxford English Dictionary.
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Hickory Dickory Dock: The Invisible Language of Nursery Rhymes
Episode 93
John McWhorter makes linguistic sense of seemingly arbitrary children's verse.
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9 years, 7 months ago
The Invisible Language of Nursery Rhymes
Episode 93
What does Hickory Dickory Dock really mean?
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Word Sex
Episode 92
How Words Hook Up and Make New Ones
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Word Sex
Episode 92
Where do new words come from? Often old words.
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