A podcast about language, with host John McWhorter.
Author John Koenig talks about inventing words for those subtle emotions that hitherto had no name.
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Mike Vuolo and Bob Garfield join Mike Pesca of The Gist to talk about the long, strange journey of 6 7, from rapper Skrilla to the basketball court, from the classroom to the Word of the Year.
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Gobbledygook sounds like one of those words that somebody just made up — so is it?
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Our parents were cringe-inducing but we're just cringe.
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Good is no longer good enough. Everyone is awesome, superlative or just great.
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Returning as the primary hosts of Lexicon Valley, Mike Vuolo and Bob Garfield speak to John McWhorter about understatement and hyperbole in Black English.
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An interview with Richard Tofel about his book Sound the Trumpet: The Making of John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address, revealing the startling authorship behind JFK’s most famous words.
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What did English sound like during the Revolutionary War? John has a number of fascinating observations about the way the language was spoken back then — including the accents!
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Over isn’t just the opposite of under and off is not necessarily the opposite of on.
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John talks about the subject of his new book by Avery Publishing — Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words.
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The Thai words for fire, die and rim sound an awful lot like the English words fire, die and rim. How could that be?
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