As Language Evolves with John McWhorter

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 12, 2021

John McWhorter, Columbia University linguistics professor, host of the Lexicon Valley podcast, opinion writer at The New York Times, and the author of the forthcoming Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America (Portfolio, 2021), talks about how words evolve, as listeners share words and phrases they now embrace or avoid as their meaning has shifted.

→Event: New York Times subscribers can hear more from John McWhorter in a free virtual event exploring the evolving role of language in our lives, this Thursday at 7pm. R.S.V.P. at nytimes.com/WokeWords

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