Oct 29 • 29M

What Do You Talk?

What a Broadway musical can teach us about the way we use language.

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John McWhorter
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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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