EPISODE · Jun 29, 2018 · 7 MIN
One Sentence With 7 Meanings Unlocks a Mystery of Human Speech
from Science, Spoken · host WIRED
Ruth Nell is talented talker. Always has been. As a child, her mother taught her to enunciate her words when she spoke, which she did often and at length. So wordy was she that, in grammar school, her friends nicknamed her "Yakky Roo," partly for her ace Yakky Doodle impersonation, but also for her loquaciousness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Ruth Nell is talented talker. Always has been. As a child, her mother taught her to enunciate her words when she spoke, which she did often and at length. So wordy was she that, in grammar school, her friends nicknamed her "Yakky Roo," partly for her ace Yakky Doodle impersonation, but also for her loquaciousness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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