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September 18, 2018 The Habitual Past
Did you "used to" do something but don't any longer? Where does that expression come from?!
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35 min
September 04, 2018 A Riot of Color
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Our word for "red" predates our word for "blue"—and that's true for almost every language!
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41 min
August 21, 2018 The Rise of They
John McWhorter says that English pronouns are evolving and it's time to embrace it.
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43 min
August 06, 2018 Wabbit Twacks
John McWhorter applies linguistic analysis to Looney Tunes.
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44 min
July 24, 2018 Tee Time
John McWhorter on what the French Canadian version of The Flintstones can teach us about the letter T.
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42 min
July 10, 2018 Happy Birthday OED!
John McWhorter raises an etymological glass to the nonagenarian Oxford English Dictionary.
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36 min
June 26, 2018 If Frozen, Why Not Squozen?
John McWhorter on language lessons from this year's Tony nominees for Best Musical.
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39 min
June 12, 2018 The Pronouning of Profanities
John McWhorter on the way in which words like f*ck and sh*t are increasingly standing in for it and that.
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34 min
May 29, 2018 One Tongue to Rule Them All
John McWhorter on the tantalizing prospect of a universal language.
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39 min
May 15, 2018 The Art of the Spiel
A brief history of oratory from the Gilded Age to the Era of Trump.
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44 min

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