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August 04, 2020 When Jews Adapted Spanish
Languages of the Ottoman Empire, inspired by historian Alan Mikhail's new book God's Shadow.
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48 min
July 21, 2020 Does English Have a Future?
Lots of languages have no dedicated way to indicate later-ness. Somehow life goes on.
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53 min
July 07, 2020 Defund Karen
On the insults, acronyms and sloganeering of America's racial reckoning.
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43 min
June 23, 2020 Beyond the Five Ws
The curious grammar of questions in languages around the world.
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53 min
June 09, 2020 Tweety Bird and Toddlerspeak
Language acquisition is like magic—how do children do it?!
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48 min
May 26, 2020 Coronavirus: Isolation and Aspiration
Can strongly aspirated consonants increase transmission of COVID-19?
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45 min
May 12, 2020 Our Indigenous Languages
A luxuriance of long words, baroque case endings and irregular everything—the Native American tongues!
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1 hr 2 min
April 28, 2020 I Just Can't!
Host John McWhorter shares some of his longstanding language peeves—yes, linguists have them too!
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47 min
April 14, 2020 The Many Meanings of Too
Host John McWhorter finds linguistic inspiration in an 80-year-old musical performance of Rubber Dolly.
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43 min
March 31, 2020 Sicko, Whacko, Weirdo
The -o suffix traces back to old comic strip characters with names like Knocko and Groucho. Neato!
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44 min

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