At Betway, we have Tiari-on-Ree.

Bet 10 pounds and get 40 pounds in free bets for new customers.

Download the Betway app today.

18-plus decencies apply, bet the responsible way gamblerware.org.

From New York City, this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language. I'm John McWhorter, and let's start with something funny, because the topic of this is going to be something which I must admit I find even funnier. We're going to go from the headlines. It's the thing about language that's been circulating on the news wires, as they

used to call them, and people have been writing me about this. Well, you know, I've got to fill you in,

but let's just fly around this and go into ever smaller circles with something that has made me

laugh for basically most of my life now. And it is the wonderful English as she is spoke. And it's

this poor misbegotten Portuguese man who in 1855 wrote what he called a new guide to the

conversation, i.e. he didn't know that we don't use the that way in English. New guide to conversation,

as it was supposed to be, where it was supposed to really help a Portuguese person learn English,

but he clearly didn't know English at all. And so you have just 250 pages of exquisite nonsense. And this is a whole,

he tries to write these whole dialogues. This is a dialogue about fishing. And it goes like this.

I practically have this memorized.

That pond, it seems me, many multiplied of fishes.

Let us amuse, rather, to the fishing.

And the other person says, here, there is a wand and some hooks.

A wand.

Silence.

There is a superb perch.

Give me quick the rod. Ah, there is. It is a lamprey.

Who would want to eat a lamprey? You mistake you. It is a frog. Dip again it in the water.

...