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Lexicon Valley from Booksmart Studios

A podcast about language, with host John McWhorter.
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What Is Yiddish?
Listen now (7 mins) | Jewish languages are examples par excellence of the Miami English phenomenon.
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What Is Miami English?
Listen now (26 mins) | How Cuban Spanish has affected the way people speak English.
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I Lighted Them Downstairs
Listen now (4 mins) | More language observations from the "first recorded murder trial in US history."
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John McWhorter
Report of the Trial of Levi Weeks
Listen now (29 mins) | On an indictment for the murder of Gulielma Sands, on Monday the thirty-first day of April, 1800.
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John McWhorter
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I Got Beat
Listen now (2 mins) | Old Looney Tunes cartoons have great examples of how English verbs often work.
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John McWhorter
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I Got My Nails Did!
Listen now (30 mins) | How English verbs are collapsing.
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John McWhorter
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Frame Job
Listen now (5 mins) | The semantically circuitous path that connects “from” and “frame.”
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