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Nov 12, 2022
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A podcast about language, with hosts Mike Vuolo, Bob Garfield and John McWhorter.
| Episode | Date |
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It's Been a Minute
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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Ask Not ...?
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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The American Accent Came First
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Oversleeping at the Sleepover
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May 20, 2025 |
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The Story of Us
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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Fire, Die, Rim
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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Hither and Yon
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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Down the Rabbit Hole
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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Giving You the Business
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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When Is Code-Switching Inappropriate?
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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The World's Largest Family
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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English Is Practically Naked
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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Family Ties
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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Going Deep
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Come Under Scrutiny
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Have Your Own Damn Self a Merry Little Christmas
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Dec 30, 2023 |
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When Did People Start Talking?
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Who's Afraid of Ayesha Rascoe?
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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What Is Miami English?
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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Report of the Trial of Levi Weeks
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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I Got My Nails Did!
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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To v. Too
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May 09, 2023 |
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Picture of Health
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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The Right Stuff
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Age, Color, Origin, Material
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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One for the Record Books
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Why Do People in Old Movies Talk Like That?
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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Past Master
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Feb 05, 2023 |
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Are You Tryna Hear This?
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Jan 22, 2023 |
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The Ambassadors
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Jan 07, 2023 |
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Apostrophe S
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Dec 26, 2022 |
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Is "Knocked Up" Racist?
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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What a Young Brain Can Do
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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What Do You Talk?
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Oct 29, 2022 |
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The Problem With You
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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The Rodney Dangerfield Pronoun
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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Is "Negro" a Slur or Just Antiquated?
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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One Is the Loneliest Number
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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Throw Up, Turn Out & Believe
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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Why Fidget Poppers Are "Satisfying"
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Why Do We Dot Our i's?
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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You Are SO Articulate. Really.
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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When Words Collide
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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The Haphazard History of C
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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JFK's Most Famous Sentence
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May 25, 2022 |
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The Evolution of 'Woke'
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May 10, 2022 |
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Reviving Dead Languages
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Let Sleeping Dogs Lay
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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Bonus: How Did Nigeria Get Its Name?
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Apr 09, 2022 |
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Where Is the Name Ketanji From?
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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The Ukrainian Language
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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How About This Weather?
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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Joe Rogan and the N-Word, by Way of Kyiv
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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Son of a B***h on a Hot Mic
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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RIP: Sidney Poitier, Lani Guinier, Max Julien
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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300 Years of Language Peevery
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Dec 29, 2021 |
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Four Calling Birds? Not Exactly.
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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Why Does the Letter "A" Look That Way?
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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BONUS: Lexiconundrum #1
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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Happy Days Are Here
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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BONUS: In Language, Context Is King
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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That's Not What Irony Means, Alanis
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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Can You Play “Jew” in Scrabble?
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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A*#holes and B%tches
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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On the Singular 'They' and Slippery Slopes
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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The Pandemic's Effect on Language
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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What Do They Speak in Afghanistan?
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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The Morphing of Critical Race Theory
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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Mare of Easttown and the Philly Accent
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Aug 10, 2021 |
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English Has a Bee in Its Bonnet
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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Russian Is My Mt. Everest
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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Languages of Northern Africa
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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You're Gonna Hafta
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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The Languages of Southeast Asia
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May 25, 2021 |
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Irregardless Make You Cringe? Relax.
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May 11, 2021 |
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Nine Nasty Words
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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The Invisible Complexities of Translation
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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English Is Plain Weird
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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Subject-Verb-Object. Right?
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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Parting Company
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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Wallowing in Negativity
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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Fossil Hunting in English
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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Why Do Languages Have Gender?
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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Forgetting Your Roots
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Jan 05, 2021 |
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Future English Speaker, Can You Read Me?
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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Getting Got
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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On the Origin of English
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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White Author, Black English. Problem?
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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Do Cats Have Language?
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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Sergeant, Corporal, Colonel!
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Oct 13, 2020 |
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To Reason Why
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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When Talking to Your Mother-In-Law Is a Minefield
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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The Incredible Story of the Traveling Creole
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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This Am a Minstrel Stereotype, Right?
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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When Jews Adapted Spanish
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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Does English Have a Future?
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Jul 21, 2020 |
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Defund Karen
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Jul 07, 2020 |
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Beyond the Five Ws
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Jun 23, 2020 |
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Tweety Bird and Toddlerspeak
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Jun 09, 2020 |
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Coronavirus: Isolation and Aspiration
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May 26, 2020 |
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Our Indigenous Languages
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May 12, 2020 |
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I Just Can't!
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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The Many Meanings of Too
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Apr 14, 2020 |
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Sicko, Whacko, Weirdo
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Mar 31, 2020 |
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Chinese Has No Grammar, Right? Wrong!
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Mar 17, 2020 |
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From Uptalk to Vocal Fry, Women Are Prolific Language Innovators
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Mar 04, 2020 |
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In What Order Did Languages Arrive in Europe?
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Feb 18, 2020 |
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Digging Up the Past
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Feb 04, 2020 |
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Verbs on the Move
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Jan 21, 2020 |
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Does PROCESSES Rhyme with KNEES?
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Jan 07, 2020 |
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A Bisl Yiddish
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Dec 24, 2019 |
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Private Parts
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Dec 10, 2019 |
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The Soft Power of Like
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Nov 26, 2019 |
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Men, Women and Children
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Nov 12, 2019 |
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Zombie English
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Oct 29, 2019 |
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Let's Do Lunch
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Oct 16, 2019 |
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How to Think Like a Linguist
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Oct 01, 2019 |
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Has English Gotten Less Complex?
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Sep 17, 2019 |
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S#!t, Hell and Darn
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Sep 03, 2019 |
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This Family Speaks 1,200 Languages
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Aug 19, 2019 |
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Language vs. Dialect
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Aug 06, 2019 |
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The Internet Loves the Exclamation Point!!
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Jul 23, 2019 |
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Why Is "Ph" Pronounced That Way?
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Jul 09, 2019 |
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Does Language Affect Thought?
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Jun 25, 2019 |
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A Fleeting Glance
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Jun 11, 2019 |
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The Romance Languages
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May 28, 2019 |
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Why Do Some Americans Say Warshed?
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May 14, 2019 |
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Flores Man vs. Sulawesi
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Apr 29, 2019 |
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The Lingua Francas
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Apr 16, 2019 |
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Can Climate Influence Language?
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Apr 02, 2019 |
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When Ain't Was All Right
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Mar 19, 2019 |
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The Semitic Tongues
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Mar 05, 2019 |
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Precious Little
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Feb 19, 2019 |
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When Words Collide
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Feb 06, 2019 |
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Truth Be Told
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Jan 22, 2019 |
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A Penetrating History of F*%k
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Jan 08, 2019 |
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When Did English Get Happy?
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Dec 25, 2018 |
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Why Language Can't Be Tamed
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Dec 11, 2018 |
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Is Social Media Changing English?
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Nov 27, 2018 |
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What Was the First Language?
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Nov 13, 2018 |
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So... Let's Talk About So
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Oct 30, 2018 |
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Like-Minded
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Oct 16, 2018 |
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Why Do Southerners Talk Like That?
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Oct 02, 2018 |
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The Habitual Past
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Sep 18, 2018 |
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A Riot of Color
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Sep 04, 2018 |
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Wabbit Twacks
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Aug 06, 2018 |
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Tee Time
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Jul 24, 2018 |
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Happy Birthday, OED!
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Jul 10, 2018 |
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If Frozen, Why Not Squozen?
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Jun 26, 2018 |
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The Pronouning of Profanities
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Jun 12, 2018 |
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One Tongue to Rule Them All
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May 29, 2018 |
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The Art of the Spiel
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May 15, 2018 |
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Getting to Yes
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May 01, 2018 |
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The Story of P
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Apr 17, 2018 |
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English Spelling Is a Beautiful Mess
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Apr 03, 2018 |
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Did the Founding Fathers Have a British Accent?
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Mar 20, 2018 |
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No-Uh!
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Mar 06, 2018 |
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The Inner Workings of Out
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Feb 20, 2018 |
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Words, For Her
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Feb 06, 2018 |
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What's the Deal with Eleven?
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Jan 23, 2018 |
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There Are Two N-Words
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Jan 09, 2018 |
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The Thing Is Is
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Dec 26, 2017 |
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An Accidental Sanctity
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Dec 12, 2017 |
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Thanksgiving Misnomers
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Nov 28, 2017 |
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Sometimes Just Because
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Nov 14, 2017 |
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Against Strunk & White
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Oct 31, 2017 |
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Whence Baby Mama?
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Oct 17, 2017 |
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Este No Es Parqueo: A Brief Ode to Spanish
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Oct 03, 2017 |
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From Pidgins to Creoles
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Sep 19, 2017 |
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Do Languages Simplify Over Time?
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Sep 05, 2017 |
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Did Cavebabies Say Mama and Papa?
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Aug 22, 2017 |
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New Life for Dying Languages
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Aug 08, 2017 |
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Negatory! A Brief History of No.
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Jul 25, 2017 |
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Why Do Languages Have Contractions?
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Jul 11, 2017 |
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The Incredible Lightness of Being
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Jun 27, 2017 |
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Is There a Jewish Way of Talking?
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Jun 13, 2017 |
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Mining Graffiti for Slang
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May 30, 2017 |
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Don't Tell me Reune is Not a Word!
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May 16, 2017 |
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The Language of Female Friendships
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May 02, 2017 |
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The Euphemism Treadmill
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Apr 18, 2017 |
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Heyo, Let's Talk About Hamilton
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Apr 04, 2017 |
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How Did Americans Talk a Hundred Years Ago?
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Mar 21, 2017 |
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Like, Why Do We Use Like So Much?
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Feb 07, 2017 |
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What Had Happened Was Storytelling
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Jan 24, 2017 |
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Why We Stopped Teaching Children How to Read
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Jan 10, 2017 |
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Away in a Penthouse, the Little Lord Jesus
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Dec 27, 2016 |
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What "The Wizard of Oz" Can Tell Us About "Arrival"
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Dec 13, 2016 |
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Black Like Us
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Nov 29, 2016 |
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Language Lessons of Past Presidents
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Nov 15, 2016 |
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How You Vanquished Ye, Thee, and Thou
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Nov 01, 2016 |
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Why Do People in Old Movies Talk Like That?
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Oct 18, 2016 |
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Billy and Me Went to the Store. Deal With It.
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Oct 04, 2016 |
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What Is a Dictionary, Really?
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Sep 20, 2016 |
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Hickory Dickory Dock: The Invisible Language of Nursery Rhymes
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Sep 06, 2016 |
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Word Sex
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Aug 23, 2016 |
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Should Shakespeare Get a Modern English Update?
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Aug 08, 2016 |
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Are Emoji a Language?
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Jul 26, 2016 |
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Finding Life in a Dead Language
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Jul 12, 2016 |
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Rules Are Made to Be Spoken
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Jun 29, 2016 |
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English Spelling is a Mess. It's Time to Reform It.
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Jun 14, 2016 |
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Your Brain on Profanity
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May 31, 2016 |
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LinguaFile XXIII | Roshambo
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May 17, 2016 |
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The Blaccent: What Does It Mean to Sound Black?
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May 03, 2016 |
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LinguaFile XXII | Red Herring
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Apr 19, 2016 |
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Defecation Presentation
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Apr 04, 2016 |
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Take This Episode with a Grain of Salt
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Mar 08, 2016 |
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The Full, Firm, Valiant, and Heavy-Hearted Trump
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Feb 22, 2016 |
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LinguaFile XXI | Wazzock
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Feb 08, 2016 |
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The Fall and Rise of the Singular They
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Jan 27, 2016 |
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LinguaFile XX | In Cahoots
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Jan 11, 2016 |
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Tears of Joy, Identity, and a Prism of Isms
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Dec 28, 2015 |
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LinguaFile XIX | 86'd
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Dec 14, 2015 |
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Snoozefest
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Nov 30, 2015 |
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LinguaFile XVIII | Hootenanny
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Nov 16, 2015 |
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A Cat, a Coward, and Female Genitalia
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Nov 02, 2015 |
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LinguaFile XVII | Humdinger
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Oct 19, 2015 |
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Seven Centuries of F--ks
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Oct 05, 2015 |
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LinguaFile XVI | Boondoggle
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Sep 21, 2015 |
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How New York Became the Big Apple
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Sep 07, 2015 |
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LinguaFile XV | Gringo
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Aug 24, 2015 |
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What Do You Mean What Is It Like?
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Aug 10, 2015 |
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LinguaFile XIV | Heebie Jeebies
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Jul 27, 2015 |
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What's the Deal with Translating Seinfeld?
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Jul 13, 2015 |
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LinguaFile XIII | Bozo
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Jun 29, 2015 |
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The Pollyanna Hypothesis
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Jun 17, 2015 |
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LinguaFile XII | Kibitz
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Jun 01, 2015 |
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M'athchomaroon, Zhey Lajak Vezhven!
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May 18, 2015 |
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LinguaFile XI | Seersucker
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May 04, 2015 |
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Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
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Apr 20, 2015 |
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LinguaFile X | Pumpernickel
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Apr 06, 2015 |
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And Infinitum
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Mar 23, 2015 |
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LinguaFile IX | Carnival
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Mar 09, 2015 |
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Sex Workers
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Feb 23, 2015 |
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LinguaFile VIII | Quiz
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Feb 09, 2015 |
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The Many Lives of Anna Karenina
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Jan 26, 2015 |
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LinguaFile VII | Cockamamie
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Jan 12, 2015 |
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Exposure to Vape Culture
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Dec 29, 2014 |
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LinguaFile VI | Grog
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Dec 15, 2014 |
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What Does It Mean to Sound Gay?
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Dec 01, 2014 |
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LinguaFile V | Get One's Goat
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Nov 17, 2014 |
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Number Theory
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Nov 03, 2014 |
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LinguaFile IV | Snark
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Oct 20, 2014 |
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Man on the Street
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Oct 06, 2014 |
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LinguaFile III | Orange
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Sep 22, 2014 |
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Demonstratively Speaking
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Sep 08, 2014 |
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LinguaFile II | Lagniappe
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Aug 25, 2014 |
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The Manic Pixie and the Magical Negro
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Aug 11, 2014 |
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LinguaFile I | Discombobulate
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Jul 28, 2014 |
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Fisherman's Whorf
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Jul 14, 2014 |
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Legislating Language
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Mar 10, 2014 |
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The Dude Abides
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Jan 27, 2014 |
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Learning to Say No
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Dec 23, 2013 |
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Ask Not Who Wrote "Ask Not"
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Dec 16, 2013 |
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The End of Ambiguity
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Dec 09, 2013 |
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The Burden of Being Right
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Aug 05, 2013 |
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Name That Tone
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Jul 15, 2013 |
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Eject at High Altitude
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Jul 01, 2013 |
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30 Million By Four
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Jun 24, 2013 |
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A Brief History of Swearing
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Jun 17, 2013 |
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Accentuate the Positive
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Jun 10, 2013 |
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The Fawth Flaw, Part II
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Jan 28, 2013 |
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The Fawth Flaw
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Jan 14, 2013 |
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Get Your Creak On
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Dec 31, 2012 |
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Good Is Up
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Dec 17, 2012 |
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Talking Leaves and Lightning Paper
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Dec 03, 2012 |
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Undocumented Illegals
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Nov 12, 2012 |
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Death to Potatoes
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Oct 29, 2012 |
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Here's to You Mrs. Malaprop
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Oct 15, 2012 |
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The Rate of Exchange
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Oct 01, 2012 |
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Ascent of the A-Word
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Sep 17, 2012 |
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Our Dying Words
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Jul 09, 2012 |
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Then Is Now, Now and Then
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Jul 02, 2012 |
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By Their Words You Shall Know Them
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Jun 18, 2012 |
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Capturing the Past
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Jun 11, 2012 |
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The Eloquence of Plain English
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Jun 04, 2012 |
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When Being Done Replaced Doing
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May 27, 2012 |
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One Giant Leap for Humanity
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May 14, 2012 |
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And May He Be a Masculine Bridge
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May 07, 2012 |
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When Nouns Grew Genitals
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Apr 30, 2012 |
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A Needle Pulling Thread
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Apr 23, 2012 |
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A Meditation on Scrabble
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Mar 12, 2012 |
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Untuning the String
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Mar 05, 2012 |
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Jumpin' Salty in The O
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Feb 27, 2012 |
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Consider the Lamppost
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Feb 20, 2012 |
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A Bundle of Faggots
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Feb 13, 2012 |
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A Sin of Which None Is Guilty
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Feb 06, 2012 |