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How to Kill a Language, Part I
Bang for the Buck
The Language of Liars
No More Mr. Nice Guy
Nice Guys Finish Last
Happily Ever Arter
Grand Am
Haut Corn!
A Quick Buck
Nice of You to Join Us
The Dating Game, Great White Edition
The Original Maverick
Get One's Goat
The G.O.A.T.
The Amazing Great
The Ethereal Omelet
The Most Beautiful Word
The Dating Game, Paranormal Edition
Parasocial Climbing
The Lowdown on Lowkey
The Dating Game, Perfect Edition
A Perfect Episode
I've Been Hornswoggled!
ELoose as a Goose
The Sound of a Car Backshifting
How Do Words Get into the Dictionary?
Look It Up! The Story of the Dictionary.
Open Season for Racists
Playing the Angles
You Get the Gist
Derek Guy on the Language of Clothing
McWhorter vs. McWhorter
A Toast to Toast
All the Rage Bait
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
6 7: Everything You Don't Know About the Word of the Year
Gobbledygook Explained
Gen Alpha Thinks You're Cringe
The Amazing Great
It's Been a Minute
Ask Not?
The American Accent Came First
Oversleeping at the Sleepover
The Story of Us
Fire, Die, Rim
Hither and Yon
Down the Rabbit Hole
Giving You the Business
When Is Code-Switching Inappropriate?
The World's Largest Family
English Is Practically Naked
Family Ties
Going Deep
Come Under Scrutiny
Have Your Own Damn Self a Merry Little Christmas
When Did People Start Talking?
Who's Afraid of Ayesha Rascoe?
What Is Miami English?
Report of the Trial of Levi Weeks
I Got My Nails Did!
To v. Too
Picture of Health
The Right Stuff
Age, Color, Origin, Material
One for the Record Books
Why Do People in Old Movies Talk Like That?
Past Master
Are You Tryna Hear This?
The Ambassadors
Apostrophe S
Is "Knocked Up" Racist?
What a Young Brain Can Do
What Do You Talk?
The Problem with You
The Rodney Dangerfield Pronoun
Is Negro a Slur or Just Antiquated?
One Is the Loneliest Number
Throw Up, Turn Out & Believe
Why Fidget Poppers Are "Satisfying"
Why Do We Dot Our i's?
You Are SO Articulate. Really.
When Words Collide
The Haphazard History of C
JFK's Most Famous Sentence
The Evolution of Woke
Reviving Dead Languages
Let Sleeping Dogs Lay
How Did Nigeria Get Its Name?
Where Is the Name Ketanji From?
A Linguistic Love Letter to Ukraine
How About This Weather?
Joe Rogan and the N-Word, by Way of Kyiv
Son of a B*tch on a Hot Mic
RIP: Sidney Poitier, Lani Guinier, Max Julien
300 Years of Language Peevery
Four Calling Birds? Not Exactly.
Why Does the Letter A Look That Way?
Happy Days Are Here
In Language, Context Is King
That's Not What Irony Means, Alanis