Linguistic Double Dipping

Update: 2022-04-13

Description

English borrowed lots of words from French. And it liked some of those words so much it borrowed them twice.

Hosted by Emily Brewster, Ammon Shea, and Peter Sokolowski.

Produced in collaboration with New England Public Media.

Transcript available here.

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Linguistic Double Dipping

Linguistic Double Dipping