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    Lexicon: The Invisible Language of Nursery Rhymes

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    Length:
    27 minutes
    Released:
    Sep 6, 2016
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Description

    What does "Hickory Dickory Dock" really mean?  John McWhorter makes linguistic sense of seemingly arbitrary children's verse.
    Released:
    Sep 6, 2016
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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