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

I'm John McWhorter, and let's say we're in Jamaica.

I was not too terribly long ago, and I remember I was sitting in a cab, and I saw a sign.

I saw a billboard on the street, And it was advertising cock soup. Really? Cock soup. I found myself

thinking as I passed that there is no way that the mother in that picture is giving her child

penises floating in broth. There's just no way. And so then I had to think to

myself, oh, wait a minute, wait, different English. And so I guess in Jamaica and probably other places,

cock still can mean chicken. And so it's chicken soup. Cock soup. Chicken soup. And then I thought,

well, wait a minute. Isn't there something like in Scotland,

it's soup called cockaliki? Once again, that couldn't be penises leaking. It's chicken and leeks,

which actually looks pretty good. I think I'm going to try that, but cockaliki, so chicken and leaks.

And, you know, I have been thinking about that little cab in Kingston episode

lately, because, to be honest, we are at a point where I need to start thinking more about

such things because I have a book coming out about profanity. It actually comes out on May

3rd. And, you know, quite honestly, I'd like you all to consider

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