Episode 1186
How Pronouns Evolve
John McWhorter, Columbia University linguistics professor, talks about his new book that digs into the cultural and linguistic history of pronouns.
April 4, 202519m 40s
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Show Notes
John McWhorter, Columbia University linguistics professor, host of the Lexicon Valley podcast, opinion writer at The New York Times, and the author of Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words (Avery, 2025), talks about his new book that digs into the cultural and linguistic history of pronoun usage in English and what light that sheds on today's controversies.
Topics
genderlocal_wnyclanguage_newsgender_identitypronounslinguisticslanguage