Lexicon Valley from Booksmart Studios
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With esteemed Columbia University linguistics professor John McWhorter as your host, Lexicon Valley dissects this messy, maddening and thoroughly wonderful thing we call language.
Description
The Thai words for fire, die and rim sound an awful lot like the English words fire, die and rim. Why is that? John explains.
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