Want to learn a second or third language? You don’t have to slave away in a French seminar – it only takes a minute or two to pick up “ob.” Next time on tob-oo thob-ah bob-est ob-of ob-our knob-ow-lob-edge. Or should I say To the Best of Our Knowledge, word games, and secret languages from pig-latin to op and ob. Also, skunks and caucuses: the patriotic history of Webster’s revolutionary dictionary.
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September 11, 2023