Sitemap - 2022 - Lexicon Valley from Booksmart Studios
Can You Learn English By Watching TV?
Why Do People Say "Needs Washed"?
What Are You Gonna Do with This Place?
Why Do Some People Say "Impordant"?
Is Y'all Singular or Plural? It's Both.
The Rodney Dangerfield Pronoun
Is the Datum/Data Distinction Dead?
Is Negro a Slur or Just Antiquated?
Why Does It Rain Cats and Dogs?
Why Are We "Accessing" Everything?
Why Fidget Poppers Are "Satisfying"
Do We Know How "Gender" Arises in Language?
You Are SO Articulate. Really.
Why Do Native Speakers Make "Mistakes"?
English's Two TH Sounds, Explained
When a "Queen" Was a Prostitute
Why Do Brits Put R's Where They Don't Belong?
BONUS: English Is Hard Enough Without Antiquated Distinctions
How Do Different Languages Handle Being Polite?
Bonus: How Did Nigeria Get Its Name?
Where Is the Name Ketanji From?
Why Do We Have Rights, But We Don't Have Lefts?
How Did Execute Come to Mean Kill?
BONUS: A Playwright and a Fishmonger Walk into a Haberdashery
Do Italian Speakers of English Really Talk-ad-a-Like-a-This?
Joe Rogan and the N-Word, by Way of Kyiv
We INfer and DEfer. Do We Ever Just Fer?
BONUS: Canny, Cunning and Uncouth Are All Cousins
An Existential Question About Bread, Okay?
BONUS: English Is Very French in the Kitchen
RIP: Sidney Poitier, Lani Guinier, Max Julien