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Lexicon Valley Slate Magazine
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Lexicon Valley is a show about language, from pet peeves, syntax, and etymology to neurolinguistics and the death of languages. Hosted by linguist John McWhorter.
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Wallowing in Negativity
From the evolution of ain't to double negatives, simply saying no is wonderfully complex.
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Fossil Hunting in English
Our language contains a trove of buried clues, petrified remnants of its past. But you have to know where to dig.
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Why Do Languages Have Gender?
Lots of languages divide words into categories, like male and female. How does that happen?
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Forgetting Your Roots
Words have a way of rebelling against their etymological parents, acquiring meanings of their own.
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Future English Speaker, Can You Read Me?
That language changes is certain. How quickly or slowly is another matter.
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Getting Got
The story of how one little verb developed a seemingly endless capacity to absorb new meanings.
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