222 episodes
Lexicon Valley Slate Magazine
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4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
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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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You're Gonna Hafta
Deconstructing a single line of dialogue from Netflix's "The Crown."
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The Languages of Southeast Asia
Why are so many of the languages of Southeast Asia "like Chinese"?
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Irregardless Make You Cringe? Relax.
English is full of redundancies—so why are we bothered by only a select few?
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Nine Nasty Words
John McWhorter teases his new book about off-color English expressions, starting with c!#k.
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The Invisible Complexities of Translation
A single word—take "self," for example—reveals the thorny nature of literary translation.
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English Is Plain Weird
Don't be fooled into thinking that English is a typical language. It's not.
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Customer Reviews
Pet peeves
John you hit on one of my pet peeves with “irreguardless” and then offered up several other examples of double negatives that don’t typically raise my ire - exposing my own hypocrisy. Thank you, that was entertaining and educational!
Awesome!
Awesome podcast. John McWorther is a knowledgeable person and so funny that it makes me laugh on what he says. He gives me the information I don’t forget.
Love this show
Just about the last intelligent thing left on Slate.