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What Is Miami English?

Lexicon Valley

Lexicon Valley

Society & Culture, Education

4.8611 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

A recent study suggests that a new dialect is emerging in the southern part of Florida. Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Lexicon Valley⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. A Booksmart Studios production. Episode 262: "What Is Miami English?" With John McWhorter. Produced and edited by Mike Vuolo. All rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, I'm Ryan Eggled from TV shows like New Amsterdam, The Blacklist, and of course, leave it to Beaver. You're on that? I was the Beaver. Didn't know. And I'm Adam Rose, an actor on TV, blue cardigan guy on your social medias, and Avid Speedwalker. We're the hosts of Small Stupid Stuff, an important new podcast from Studio 71. Ryan and I talk about the big issues, the heavy questions, pressing topics.

0:21.9

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0:23.4

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0:24.9

And of course, whether you put your toilet paper over or under or around.

0:29.5

I don't know what around is.

0:30.9

I don't either, but I'm definitely an over man.

0:32.7

Yeah.

0:33.1

Every episode, we're joined by a celebrity guest who gives us their hottest takes on the stupidest,

0:38.7

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0:39.6

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0:46.6

Our goal is to solve the world's problems by finally figuring out the truth about crap that doesn't

0:51.8

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0:52.3

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0:55.3

podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And watch us on YouTube, new episodes every Tuesday.

1:01.0

Stop.

1:05.2

From BookSmart Studios, this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language.

1:13.6

I'm John McWhorter, and I want to take something from what we could call the headlines at this point,

1:19.2

which is something that many people are writing me about and even in conversation talking to me about,

1:24.0

and I think it's time for us to break it down, as they used to say. That is this

1:30.0

new Miami English. And what I mean is that we have seen in what used to be called the

1:37.6

newspapers that there is a way of speaking English that has emerged among people who speak Spanish, Cuban Spanish in Miami,

1:48.6

and down the generations. So there are people who are speaking English this way who are

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