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Lexicon Valley is a podcast about language, from pet peeves, syntax, and etymology to neurolinguistics and the death of languages. Hosted by linguist John McWhorter.

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The Story of P
Durée : 36min 22s
English Spelling Is a Beautiful Mess
Durée : 34min 0s
Did the Founding Fathers Have a British Accent?
Durée : 35min 11s
No-Uh!
Durée : 32min 12s
The Inner Workings of Out
Durée : 31min 39s
Words, For Her
Durée : 32min 25s
What's the Deal with Eleven?
Durée : 42min 0s
There Are Two N-Words
Durée : 32min 49s
The Thing Is Is
Durée : 31min 3s
An Accidental Sanctity
Durée : 31min 11s
Thanksgiving Misnomers
Durée : 33min 4s
Sometimes Just Because
Durée : 29min 2s
Against Strunk & White
Durée : 29min 36s
Whence Baby Mama?
Durée : 34min 49s
Este No Es Parqueo
Durée : 33min 1s
From Pidgins to Creoles
Durée : 34min 36s
Do Languages Simplify Over Time?
Durée : 28min 47s
Did Cavebabies Say Mama and Papa?
Durée : 28min 34s
New Life for Dying Languages
Durée : 33min 59s
In the Negative
Durée : 28min 45s
Why Do Languages Have Contractions?
Durée : 32min 46s
The Incredible Lightness of Being
Durée : 25min 58s
Is There a Jewish Way of Talking?
Durée : 34min 59s
Mining Graffiti for Slang
Durée : 28min 35s
That's Not a Word, Is It?
Durée : 27min 32s
The Language of Female Friendships
Durée : 32min 39s
The Euphemism Treadmill
Durée : 25min 25s
Heyo, Let's Talk About Hamilton
Durée : 27min 32s
Earlier American English—More Profane, Parochial and Provincial
Durée : 29min 16s
Like, Why Do We Use Like So Much?
Durée : 32min 13s
What Had Happened Was Storytelling
Durée : 30min 11s
Why We Stopped Teaching Children How to Read
Durée : 29min 34s
Away in a Penthouse, the Little Lord Jesus
Durée : 25min 24s
What "The Wizard of Oz" Can Tell Us About "Arrival"
Durée : 26min 56s
Black Like Us
Durée : 30min 36s
Language Lessons of Past Presidents
Durée : 28min 58s
Whither Didst Thou Go?
Durée : 32min 58s
Why Do People Talk Like That in Old Movies?
Durée : 31min 9s
Billy and Me Went to the Store. Deal With It.
Durée : 24min 50s
What Is a Dictionary, Really?
Durée : 22min 18s
The Invisible Language of Nursery Rhymes
Durée : 22min 34s
Word Sex
Durée : 34min 36s
Should Shakespeare Get a Modern English Update?
Durée : 43min 39s
Are Emoji a Language?
Durée : 37min 30s
Finding Life in a Dead Language
Durée : 25min 24s
Rules Are Made to Be Spoken
Durée : 28min 55s
The Tragedy of English Spelling
Durée : 25min 3s
Your Brain on Profanity
Durée : 31min 53s
Rock, Paper, Scissors, Shoot!
Durée : 25min 42s
The Blaccent: What Does It Mean to Sound Black?
Durée : 26min 46s
A Wild Goose Chase that Stinks from Fish
Durée : 22min 15s
Defecation Presentation
Durée : 27min 8s
Take This Episode with a Grain of Salt
Durée : 29min 23s
The Full, Firm, Valiant, and Heavy-Hearted Trump
Durée : 28min 11s
A British Insult Fit for Trump
Durée : 32min 5s
They Had a Good Year
Durée : 35min 33s
The Curious Case of a Conspiratorial Coinage
Durée : 36min 4s
Tears of Joy, Identity, and a Prism of Isms
Durée : 32min 8s
Sleeping Hobos in a Tent, Rush 'Em!
Durée : 29min 37s
Snoozefest
Durée : 28min 32s
Woody Guthrie's Folk Etymology
Durée : 27min 27s
A Cat, a Coward, and Female Genitalia
Durée : 31min 56s
A Drone, a Bell, and a Suffix
Durée : 28min 33s
Seven Centuries of F--ks
Durée : 31min 32s
An Ambitious Enterprise, Quixotic and Unavailing
Durée : 30min 29s
How New York Became the Big Apple
Durée : 22min 6s
Why Do Latin Americans Call English Speakers Gringos?
Durée : 33min 2s
What Do You Mean What Is It Like?
Durée : 29min 14s
LinguaFile XIV | Heebie Jeebies
Durée : 37min 22s
What's the Deal with Translating Seinfeld?
Durée : 40min 58s
LinguaFile XIII | Bozo
Durée : 24min 11s
The Pollyanna Hypothesis
Durée : 46min 54s
LinguaFile XII | Kibitz
Durée : 37min 5s
M'athchomaroon, Zhey Lajak Vezhven!
Durée : 41min 3s
LinguaFile XI | Seersucker
Durée : 32min 44s
Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
Durée : 37min 30s
LinguaFile X | Pumpernickel
Durée : 35min 14s
And Infinitum
Durée : 36min 23s
LinguaFile IX | Carnival
Durée : 26min 33s
Sex Workers
Durée : 32min 50s
LinguaFile VIII | Quiz
Durée : 24min 3s
The Many Lives of Anna Karenina
Durée : 36min 55s
LinguaFile VII | Cockamamie
Durée : 31min 44s
Exposure to Vape Culture
Durée : 48min 34s
LinguaFile VI | Grog
Durée : 25min 18s
What Does It Mean to Sound Gay?
Durée : 36min 43s
LinguaFile V | Get One's Goat
Durée : 33min 0s
Number Theory
Durée : 26min 58s
LinguaFile IV | Snark
Durée : 41min 31s
Man on the Street
Durée : 38min 13s
LinguaFile III | Orange
Durée : 28min 33s
Demonstratively Speaking
Durée : 29min 58s
LinguaFile II | Lagniappe
Durée : 23min 45s
The Manic Pixie and the Magical Negro
Durée : 30min 18s
LinguaFile I | Discombobulate
Durée : 18min 21s
Lexicon Valley No. 38: Fisherman's Whorf
Durée : 34min 1s
Lexicon Valley No. 37: Legislating Language
Durée : 31min 37s
Lexicon Valley No. 36: The Dude Abides
Durée : 35min 27s
Lexicon Valley No. 35: Learning to Say No
Durée : 25min 14s
Lexicon Valley No. 34: Ask Not Who Wrote "Ask Not"
Durée : 29min 23s

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