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134: True Colour (with Kory Stamper)

March 13 · 2 hr 21 min · 135.6 MBExplicit
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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