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Linguist Geoff Nunberg

Linguist Geoff Nunberg on the way the words of courtship are showing up on the newspaper business pages.

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Presidents and Pronunciation: Going 'Nucular'

Linguist Geoff Nunberg talks about presidents and language, and the pronunciation of nuclear as "nucular," a mispronunciation that dates all the way back to the era of Eisenhower. The underlying cognitive causes and social implications are considered.

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Linguist Geoff Nunberg

Linguist Geoff Nunberg considers recent claims about the relation between vocabulary size and social class.

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