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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The Lingua Francas
A conversation with Gaston Dorren, author of Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages.
Can Climate Influence Language?
Tonal languages evolved mostly in hot and humid places. What would explain that?
The Semitic Tongues
Where did Arabic, Hebrew and Amharic originate? And what is a triconsonantal root?
A Penetrating History of F*%k
English speakers have been getting it on with the F-word for centuries.
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