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Why Is English Highly Irregular? (Interview with Arika Okrent)
Words for Granted - An etymology and linguistics podcast
English - July 09, 2021 03:53 - 40 minutes - 56.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 220 ratingsLanguage Learning Education History etymology language linguistics Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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English may be spoken by a whopping 1.5 billion ESL speakers around the world, but that doesn't mean it's an "easy" language to learn. For native English speakers, it's easy to take for granted just how irregular the English language is. In this interview episode, I chat with Arika Okrent about her new book, Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme and Other Oddities of the English Language.
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