Lexicon Valley from Booksmart Studios

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Episodes: 58


 Nov 12, 2022

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A podcast about language, with host John McWhorter.

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Episode Date
Come Under Scrutiny
Mar 18, 2024
Have Your Own Damn Self a Merry Little Christmas
Dec 30, 2023
When Did People Start Talking?
Nov 06, 2023
Who's Afraid of Ayesha Rascoe?
Sep 29, 2023
What Is Miami English?
Aug 21, 2023
Report of the Trial of Levi Weeks
Jul 17, 2023
I Got My Nails Did!
Jun 09, 2023
To v. Too
May 09, 2023
Picture of Health
Apr 24, 2023
The Right Stuff
Apr 03, 2023
Age, Color, Origin, Material
Mar 20, 2023
One for the Record Books
Mar 06, 2023
Why Do People in Old Movies Talk Like That?
Feb 20, 2023
Past Master
Feb 05, 2023
Are You Tryna Hear This?
Jan 22, 2023
The Ambassadors
Jan 07, 2023
Apostrophe S
Dec 26, 2022
Is "Knocked Up" Racist?
Dec 13, 2022
What a Young Brain Can Do
Nov 11, 2022
What Do You Talk?
Oct 29, 2022
The Problem With You
Oct 14, 2022
The Rodney Dangerfield Pronoun
Sep 28, 2022
Is Negro a Slur or Just Antiquated?
Sep 13, 2022
One Is the Loneliest Number
Aug 31, 2022
Throw Up, Turn Out & Believe
Aug 16, 2022
Why Fidget Poppers Are "Satisfying"
Aug 02, 2022
Why Do We Dot Our i's?
Jul 19, 2022
You Are SO Articulate. Really.
Jul 06, 2022
When Words Collide
Jun 22, 2022
The Haphazard History of C
Jun 07, 2022
JFK's Most Famous Sentence
May 25, 2022
The Evolution of 'Woke'
May 10, 2022
Reviving Dead Languages
Apr 28, 2022
Let Sleeping Dogs Lay
Apr 12, 2022
Bonus: How Did Nigeria Get Its Name?
Apr 09, 2022
Where Is the Name Ketanji From?
Mar 29, 2022
The Ukrainian Language
Mar 15, 2022
How About This Weather?
Mar 01, 2022
Joe Rogan and the N-Word, by Way of Kyiv
Feb 15, 2022
Son of a B***h on a Hot Mic
Feb 01, 2022
RIP: Sidney Poitier, Lani Guinier, Max Julien
Jan 18, 2022
300 Years of Language Peevery
Dec 29, 2021
Four Calling Birds? Not Exactly.
Dec 21, 2021
Why Does the Letter "A" Look That Way?
Dec 14, 2021
BONUS: Lexiconundrum #1
Dec 07, 2021
Happy Days Are Here
Dec 02, 2021
But Wait, There's More!
Nov 30, 2021
BONUS: In Language, Context Is King
Nov 23, 2021
That's Not What Irony Means, Alanis
Nov 16, 2021
Can You Play “Jew” in Scrabble?
Nov 02, 2021
A*#holes and B%tches
Oct 19, 2021
On the Singular 'They' and Slippery Slopes
Oct 05, 2021
The Pandemic's Effect on Language
Sep 22, 2021
What Do They Speak in Afghanistan?
Sep 07, 2021
The Morphing of Critical Race Theory
Aug 24, 2021
Mare of Easttown and the Philly Accent
Aug 10, 2021
English Has a Bee in Its Bonnet
Jul 28, 2021
Introducing Lexicon Valley with John McWhorter
Jul 13, 2021