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134: True Colour (with Kory Stamper)
· 2 h 21 min · Explicit
Episode 134: True Colour (with Kory Stamper)
How do you define what blue is? What even IS colour? Turns out, the quest to define colours was happening along with a standardisation crisis and a dictionary crisis at the venerable Merriam-Webster. Lexicographer and author Kory Stamper tells us all about it, and about her new book True Color.
Timestamps
• Start: 0:00 • Intros: 1:17 • News: 12:40 • Related or Not: 33:34 • Chat with Kory Stamper, author of True Color: 50:43 • Words of the Week: 1:41:58 • Comment from Lauretta: 2:04:57 • The Reads: 2:08:14 • Outtakes: 2:16:48
Transcript
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