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 word “record” can be broken down into two parts, the re and the cord. But what do those parts even mean? John explains.
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