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300 Years of Language Peevery

Four Calling Birds? Not Exactly.

Why Does the Letter "A" Look That Way?

BONUS: Lexiconundrum #1

Happy Days Are Here

EPISODE 10: When Being Done Replaced Doing

EPISODE 9: One Giant Leap for Humanity

EPISODE 8: And May He Be a Masculine Bridge

EPISODE 7: When Nouns Grew Genitals

EPISODE 6: A Needle Pulling Thread

EPISODE 5: A Meditation on Scrabble

EPISODE 4: Untuning the String

EPISODE 3: Jumpin' Salty in The O

EPISODE 2: Consider the Lamppost

EPISODE 1: A Sin of Which None Is Guilty

But Wait, There's More!

BONUS: In Language, Context Is King

That's Not What Irony Means, Alanis

BONUS: Television’s 'Handicap' Moment

Can You Play “Jew” in Scrabble?

BONUS: On the Difference Between Males and Females

A*#holes and B%tches

BONUS: 23,000 Year Old Footprints Help Solve a Vexing Linguistic Riddle

Why We Can't Agree on What 'Critical Race Theory' Means

On the Singular 'They' and Slippery Slopes

BONUS: Ridiculing Old People About Sex

The Pandemic's Effect on Language

BONUS: Decoding the First Writing System

What Do They Speak in Afghanistan?

BONUS: Popping a 'Tude

The Birth of Tobacco

The Morphing of Critical Race Theory

BONUS: Is a Hot Dog a Sandwich?

Mare of Easttown and the Philly Accent

Mare of Hoagietown

Hey, Youse Guys!

English Has a Bee in Its Bonnet

Introducing Lexicon Valley with John McWhorter

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