Rules Are Made to Be Spoken

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Rules Are Made to Be Spoken

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Jun 29, 2016

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Sali Tagliamonte, author of Making Waves: The Story of Variationist Sociolinguistics, talks about the underlying disorder of the English Language.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Jun 29, 2016

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Lexicon Valley is a show about language, from pet peeves, syntax, and etymology to neurolinguistics and the death of languages. Hosted by linguist John McWhorter.

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