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
Like the French word droit, English’s right has taken on a number of useful metaphorical meanings. John explains.
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