How do you define what blue is? What even IS colour? Turns out, the quest to define colours was happening along with a standardisation crisis and a dictionary crisis at the venerable Merriam-Webster. Lexicographer and author Kory Stamper tells us all about it, and about her new book True Color.

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• Start: 0:00
• Intros: 1:17
• News: 12:40
• Related or Not: 33:34
• Chat with Kory Stamper, author of True Color: 50:43
• Words of the Week: 1:41:58
• Comment from Lauretta: 2:04:57
• The Reads: 2:08:14
• Outtakes: 2:16:48