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Adam Ruins Everything

Ep 33: Anne Curzan Talks Grammar and the Flexibility of Language

Adam Ruins Everything

MaximumFun.org

Comedy

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2017

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Professor Anne Curzan, who is this week's podcast guest, says it's normal to notice dialectical differences between different communities but we shouldn't shame people for talking as they do.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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1:08.3

podcast I am your host Adam Conover quick reminder the show that this podcast is associated with is back. We're

1:15.4

coming back at you ruining common and misconceptions and telling you the awful truth

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experts about the work they do and why it is so fascinating and

1:38.1

interesting today's guest is such a treat. Her name is Anne Curzan. She appeared on Adam Ruins what we learned in school and

1:45.3

she is here today to talk to us about language and grammar, about how language is constantly

1:50.2

evolving and about how dictionaries are not the final source of authority on the English

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