From New York City, this is Luxicon Valley, a podcast about language.

I'm John McWhorter and you know, let's kick off with this bit of 90s delight as a

herald to what I want to share with you this time.

And now it's time for a breakdown.

Never gonna get it, never gonna get it, never gonna get it, never gonna get it, never

gonna get it, never gonna get it, never gonna get it, never gonna get it, never gonna

get it.

Never gonna get it, never gonna get it, ever gonna getting, never gonna get it, never

gonna get it, never gonna get it, never gonna get it, never gonna get it, never gonna not

This time you are gonna get it.

And what I mean is that we're gonna do Get and God.

This is one of those things.

People have been asking me to do this

for the whole four years I've been doing the show.

And frankly, you know, somebody says,

well, what's going on with I have gotten gotten

and the fact that, you know,

the British feel differently about it?

And there's a little bit of me that kind of thinks

because I hadn't really thought about it much before.

I think, who cares?

But then I realized, wait a minute.

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