Lexicon Valley from Booksmart Studios
Lexicon Valley from Booksmart Studios
What Do You Talk?
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What Do You Talk?

What a Broadway musical can teach us about the way we use language.
John McWhorter
Oct 29, 2022
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Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster in Meredith Willson’s The Music Man.

The book and lyrics of The Music Man are replete with everyday, ordinary dialogue that, nevertheless, demonstrates how English often works. John explains.

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Lexicon Valley from Booksmart Studios
Lexicon Valley from Booksmart Studios
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