John McWhorter

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Person

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🇺🇸 United States

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6 October 1965

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Lexicon Valley #294, “The Sound of a Car Backshifting”
2026
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Lexicon Valley #291, “Open Season for Racists”
Mike Vuolo & John McWhorter
2026
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Lexicon Valley #287, “McWhorter Vs. McWhorter”
2026
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Lexicon Valley #279, “It's Been a Minute”
Bob Garfield, Mike Vuolo & John McWhorter
2025
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Lexicon Valley #279, “The American Accent Came First”
2025
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The Poetry of Reality With Richard Dawkins #86, “Why the Selfish Gene Haunts Some Readers”
Richard Dawkins & John McWhorter
2025
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Lexicon Valley #278, “Oversleeping at the Sleepover”
2025
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Lexicon Valley #277, “The Story of Us”
2025
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Lexicon Valley from Booksmart Studios 2025-04-22, “The Story of Us”
2025
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Lexicon Valley #276, “Fire, Die, Rim”
2025
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Lexicon Valley #275, “Hither and Yon”
2025
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Lexicon Valley #274, “Down the Rabbit Hole”
2024
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Lexicon Valley #273, “Giving You the Business”
2024
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Lexicon Valley #272, “When Is Code-Switching Inappropriate?”
2024
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Lexicon Valley #271, “The World's Largest Family”
2024
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Lexicon Valley #270, “English Is Practically Naked”
2024
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Lexicon Valley #269, “Family Ties”
2024
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The Poetry of Reality With Richard Dawkins #48, “John McWhorter and Richard Dawkins Talk About Linguistics and Woke Racism”
Richard Dawkins & John McWhorter
2024
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Lexicon Valley #268, “Going Deep”
2024
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Lexicon Valley #267, “Come Under Scrutiny”
2024
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Lexicon Valley #266, “Have Your Own Damn Self a Merry Little Christmas”
2023
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Lexicon Valley #265, “When Did People Start Talking?”
2023
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Lexicon Valley #264, “Who's Afraid of Ayesha Rascoe?”
2023
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Lexicon Valley #263, “What Is Miami English?”
2023
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Lexicon Valley #262, “Report of the Trial of Levi Weeks”
2023
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Lexicon Valley #261, “I Got My Nails Did!”
2023
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Lexicon Valley #260, “To v. Too”
2023
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Lexicon Valley #259, “Picture of Health”
2023
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Lexicon Valley #258, “The Right Stuff”
2023
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The Glenn Show 2023-03-24, “From Equity to Equality”
Glenn Loury with John McWhorter
2023
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Lexicon Valley #257, “Age, Color, Origin, Material”
2023
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2023-03-06: The Glenn Show, “The Private Side of Public Life”
Glenn Loury with John McWhorter
2023
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Lexicon Valley #256, “One for the Record Books”
2023
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2023-02-24: The Glenn Show, “Domination and Anti-Blackness”
Glenn Loury with John McWhorter and Vincent Lloyd
2023
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Lexicon Valley #96, “Why Do People in Old Movies Talk Like That?”
2023
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2023-02-10: The Glenn Show, "The Killing of Tyre Nichols”
Glenn Loury with John McWhorter & Peter Moskos
2023
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Lexicon Valley #255, “Past Master”
2023
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Lexicon Valley #254, “Are You Tryna Hear This?”
2023
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The Glenn Show 2023-01-13, “The Best of Glenn and John 2022”
Glenn Loury with John McWhorter
2023
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Lexicon Valley #253, “The Ambassadors”
2023
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Lexicon Valley #252, “Apostrophe S”
2022
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2022-12-16: The Glenn Show, “How Should We Handle Antisemitism?”
Glenn Loury with John McWhorter
2022
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Lexicon Valley #251, “Is "Knocked Up" Racist?”
2022
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Lexicon Valley #250, “What a Young Brain Can Do”
2022
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Lexicon Valley #249, “What Do You Talk?”
2022
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Lexicon Valley #248, “The Problem With You”
2022
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Lexicon Valley #247, “The Rodney Dangerfield Pronoun”
2022
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Lexicon Valley #246, “Is "Negro" a Slur or Just Antiquated?”
2022
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Lexicon Valley #245, “One Is the Loneliest Number”
2022
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Lexicon Valley #244, “Throw Up, Turn Out & Believe”
2022
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Lexicon Valley #243, “Why Fidget Poppers Are "Satisfying"”
2022
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Lexicon Valley #242, “Why Do We Dot Our i's?”
2022
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Lexicon Valley #241, “You Are SO Articulate. Really.”
2022
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Lexicon Valley #240, “The Haphazard History of C”
2022
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Lexicon Valley #239, “JFK's Most Famous Sentence”
2022
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Lexicon Valley #238, “The Evolution of 'Woke'”
2022
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Lexicon Valley #237, “Reviving Dead Languages”
2022
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Lexicon Valley #236, “Let Sleeping Dogs Lay”
2022
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Lexicon Valley #235B, “Bonus: How Did Nigeria Get Its Name?”
2022
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Lexicon Valley #235, “Where Is the Name Ketanji From?”
2022
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Lexicon Valley #234, “The Ukrainian Language”
2022
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Lexicon Valley #233, “How About This Weather?”
2022
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Lexicon Valley #232, “Joe Rogan and the N-Word, by Way of Kyiv”
2022
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Lexicon Valley #231, “Son of a B***h on a Hot Mic”
2022
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Lexicon Valley #230, “RIP: Sidney Poitier, Lani Guinier, Max Julien”
2022
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Lexicon Valley #229, “300 Years of Language Peevery”
2021
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Lexicon Valley #228B, “Four Calling Birds? Not Exactly.”
2021
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Lexicon Valley #228, “Why Does the Letter "A" Look That Way?”
2021
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2021-12-03: Conversations With Coleman, “Woke Racism”
Coleman Hughes with John McWhorter
2021
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Lexicon Valley #226B, “BONUS: In Language, Context Is King”
2021
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Lexicon Valley #226, “That's Not What Irony Means, Alanis”
2021
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Lexicon Valley #225, “Can You Play “Jew” in Scrabble?”
2021
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2021-10-22: The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan, “Woke Racism”
Andrew Sullivan with John McWhorter
2021
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Lexicon Valley #224, “A*#holes and B%tches”
2021
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Lexicon Valley #223, “On the Singular 'They' and Slippery Slopes”
2021
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Lexicon Valley #222, “The Pandemic's Effect on Language”
2021
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Lexicon Valley #221, “What Do They Speak in Afghanistan?”
2021
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Lexicon Valley #220, “The Morphing of Critical Race Theory”
2021
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Lexicon Valley #219, “Mare of Easttown and the Philly Accent”
2021
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Lexicon Valley #218, “English Has a Bee in Its Bonnet”
2021
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Lexicon Valley #217, “Russian Is My Mt. Everest”
2021
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Lexicon Valley #216, “Languages of Northern Africa”
2021
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Lexicon Valley #215, “You're Gonna Hafta”
2021
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Lexicon Valley #214, “The Languages of Southeast Asia”
2021
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Lexicon Valley #213, “Irregardless Make You Cringe? Relax.”
2021
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Lexicon Valley #212, “Nine Nasty Words”
2021
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Lexicon Valley #211, “The Invisible Complexities of Translation”
2021
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Lexicon Valley #210, “English Is Plain Weird”
2021
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Lexicon Valley #209, “Subject-Verb-Object. Right?”
2021
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The Michael Shermer Show #165, “The Elect: Neoracists Posing as Antiracists and Their Threat to a Progressive America”
Michael Shermer with John McWhorter
2021
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Lexicon Valley #208, “Parting Company”
2021
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Lexicon Valley #207, “Wallowing in Negativity”
2021
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Lexicon Valley #206, “Fossil Hunting in English”
2021
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Lexicon Valley #205, “Why Do Languages Have Gender?”
2021
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Lexicon Valley #204, "Forgetting Your Roots"
2021
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Lexicon Valley #203, "Future English Speaker, Can You Read Me?"
2020
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Lexicon Valley #202, "Getting Got"
2020
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Lexicon Valley #201, "On the Origin of English"
2020
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Lexicon Valley #200, "White Author, Black English. Problem?"
2020
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Lexicon Valley #199, "Do Cats Have Language?"
2020
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Lexicon Valley #198, "Sergeant, Corporal, Colonel!"
2020
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Lexicon Valley #197, "To Reason Why"
2020
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Lexicon Valley #196, "When Talking to Your Mother-In-Law Is a Minefield"
2020
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Lexicon Valley #195, "The Incredible Story of the Traveling Creole"
2020
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Lexicon Valley #194, "This Am a Minstrel Stereotype, Right?"
2020
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Lexicon Valley #193, "When Jews Adapted Spanish"
2020
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Lexicon Valley #192, "Does English Have a Future?"
2020
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Lexicon Valley #191, "Defund Karen"
2020
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Lexicon Valley #190, "Beyond the Five Ws"
2020
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Lexicon Valley #189, "Tweety Bird and Toddlerspeak"
2020
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Lexicon Valley #188, "Coronavirus: Isolation and Aspiration"
2020
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Lexicon Valley #187, "Our Indigenous Languages"
2020
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Lexicon Valley #186, "I Just Can't!"
2020
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Lexicon Valley #185, "The Many Meanings of Too"
2020
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Lexicon Valley #184, "Sicko, Whacko, Weirdo"
2020
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Lexicon Valley #183, "Chinese Has No Grammar, Right? Wrong!"
2020
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Lexicon Valley #182, "From Uptalk to Vocal Fry, Women Are Prolific Language Innovators"
2020
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Lexicon Valley #181, "In What Order Did Languages Arrive in Europe?"
2020
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Lexicon Valley #180, "Digging Up the Past"
2020
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Lexicon Valley #179, "Verbs on the Move"
2020
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2020-01-16: Conversations With Coleman, “Has Anti-Racism Become a New Religion?”
Coleman Hughes with John McWhorter
2020
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Lexicon Valley #178, "Does PROCESSES Rhyme with KNEES?"
2020
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Lexicon Valley #177, "A Bisl Yiddish"
2019
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Lexicon Valley #176, "Private Parts"
2019
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Lexicon Valley #175, "The Soft Power of Like"
2019
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Lexicon Valley #174, "Men, Women and Children"
2019
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Lexicon Valley #173, "Zombie English"
2019
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Lexicon Valley #172, "Let's Do Lunch"
2019
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Lexicon Valley #171, "How to Think Like a Linguist"
2019
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Lexicon Valley #170, "Has English Gotten Less Complex?"
2019
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Lexicon Valley #169, "S#!t, Hell and Darn"
2019
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Lexicon Valley #168, "This Family Speaks 1,200 Languages"
2019
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Lexicon Valley #167, "Language vs. Dialect"
2019
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Lexicon Valley #166, "The Internet Loves the Exclamation Point!!"
2019
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Lexicon Valley #165, "Why Is "Ph" Pronounced That Way?"
2019
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Lexicon Valley #164, "Does Language Affect Thought?"
2019
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Lexicon Valley #163, "A Fleeting Glance"
2019
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Lexicon Valley #162, "The Romance Languages"
2019
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Lexicon Valley #161, "Why Do Some Americans Say Warshed?"
2019
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Lexicon Valley #160, "Flores Man vs. Sulawesi"
2019
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Lexicon Valley #159, "The Lingua Francas"
2019
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Lexicon Valley #158, "Can Climate Influence Language?"
2019
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Lexicon Valley #157, "When Ain't Was Alright"
2019
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Lexicon Valley #156, "The Semitic Tongues"
2019
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Lexicon Valley #155, "Precious Little"
2019
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Lexicon Valley #154, "When Words Collide"
2019
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Lexicon Valley #153, "Truth Be Told"
2019
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Lexicon Valley #152, "A Penetrating History of F*%k"
2019
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Lexicon Valley #151, "When Did English Get Happy?"
2018
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Lexicon Valley #150, “Why Language Can’t Be Tamed”
2018
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Lexicon Valley #149, "Is Social Media Changing English?"
2018
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Lexicon Valley #148, "What Was the First Language?"
2018
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Lexicon Valley #147, "So ... Let's Talk About So"
2018
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Lexicon Valley #146, "Like-Minded"
2018
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Lexicon Valley #145, "Why Do Southerners Talk Like That?"
2018
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Lexicon Valley #144, "The Habitual Past"
2018
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Lexicon Valley #143, "A Riot of Color"
2018
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Lexicon Valley #142, "The Rise of They"
2018
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Lexicon Valley #141, "Wabbit Twacks"
2018
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Lexicon Valley #140, "Tee Time"
2018
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Lexicon Valley #139, "Happy Birthday OED!"
2018
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Lexicon Valley #138, "If Frozen, Why Not Squozen?"
2018
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Lexicon Valley #137, "The Pronouning of Profanities"
2018
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Lexicon Valley #136, "One Tongue to Rule Them All"
2018
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Lexicon Valley #135, "The Art of the Spiel"
2018
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Lexicon Valley #134, "Getting to Yes"
2018
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Lexicon Valley #133, "The Story of P"
2018
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Lexicon Valley #132, "English Spelling Is a Beautiful Mess"
2018
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Lexicon Valley #131, "Did the Founding Fathers Have a British Accent?"
2018
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Lexicon Valley #130, "No-Uh!"
2018
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Lexicon Valley #129, "The Inner Workings of Out"
2018
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Lexicon Valley #128, "Words, For Her"
2018
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Lexicon Valley #127, "What's the Deal with Eleven?"
2018
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Lexicon Valley #126, "There Are Two N-Words"
2018
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Lexicon Valley #125, "The Thing Is Is"
2017
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Lexicon Valley #124, "An Accidental Sanctity"
2017
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Lexicon Valley #123, "Thanksgiving Misnomers"
2017
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Lexicon Valley #122, "Sometimes Just Because"
2017
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Lexicon Valley #121, "Against Strunk & White"
2017
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Lexicon Valley #120, "Whence Baby Mama?"
2017
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Lexicon Valley #119, "Este No Es Parqueo"
2017
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Lexicon Valley #118, "From Pidgins to Creoles"
2017
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Lexicon Valley #117, "Do Languages Simplify Over Time?"
2017
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Lexicon Valley #116, "Did Cavebabies Say Mama and Papa?"
2017
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Lexicon Valley #115, "New Life for Dying Languages"
2017
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Lexicon Valley #114, "In the Negative"
2017
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Lexicon Valley #113, "Why Do Languages Have Contractions?"
2017
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Lexicon Valley #112, "The Incredible Lightness of Being"
2017
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Lexicon Valley #111, "Is There a Jewish Way of Talking?"
John McWhorter with Mark Oppenheimer, Liel Leibovitz, Stephanie Butnick
2017
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Lexicon Valley #110, "Mining Graffiti for Slang"
John McWhorter & Ben Zimmer
2017
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Lexicon Valley #109, "That's Not a Word, Is It?"
2017
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Lexicon Valley #108, "The Language of Female Friendships"
2017
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Lexicon Valley #107, “The Euphemism Treadmill”
2017
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Lexicon Valley #106, “Heyo, Let's Talk About Hamilton”
2017
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Lexicon Valley #105, “How Did Americans Talk a Hundred Years Ago?”
2017
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Lexicon Valley #104, “Like, Why Do We Use Like So Much?”
2017
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Lexicon Valley #103, “What Had Happened Was Storytelling”
2017
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Lexicon Valley #102, “Why We Stopped Teaching Children How to Read”
2017
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Lexicon Valley #101, “Away in a Penthouse, the Little Lord Jesus”
2016
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Lexicon Valley #100, “What "The Wizard of Oz" Can Tell Us About "Arrival”
2016
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Lexicon Valley #99, “Black Like Us”
2016
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Lexicon Valley #98, “Language Lessons of Past Presidents”
2016
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Lexicon Valley #97, “How You Vanquished Ye, Thee and Thou”
2016
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Lexicon Valley #95, “Billy and Me Went to the Store”
2016
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Lexicon Valley #94, “What Is a Dictionary, Really?”
John McWhorter & John Simpson
2016
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Lexicon Valley #93, “The Invisible Language of Nursery Rhymes”
2016
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Lexicon Valley #92, “Word Sex”
2016
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Lexicon Valley #91, “Should Shakespeare Get a Modern English Makeover?”
John McWhorter & Jack Lynch
2016
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Lexicon Valley #90, “Are Emoji a Language?”
John McWhorter & Gretchen McCulloch
2016
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Lexicon Valley #89, “Finding Life in a Dead Language”
John McWhorter & Ann Patty
2016
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Lexicon Valley #88, “Rules Are Made to Be Spoken”
John McWhorter & Sali Tagliamonte
2016
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Lexicon Valley #87, “Should We Make English Spelling Easier?”
John McWhorter & Anatoly Liberman
2016
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Lexicon Valley #86, "Your Brain on Profanity"
John McWhorter with Benjamin K. Bergen
2016
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Myths, Lies, and Half-Truths of Language Usage
Professor John McWhorter
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Story of Human Language
Professor John McWhorter
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Understanding Linguistics: The Science of Language