How Pronouns Evolve
How Pronouns Evolve  
Podcast: The Brian Lehrer Show
Published On: Fri Apr 04 2025
Description: John McWhorter, Columbia University linguistics professor, host of the Lexicon Valley podcast, opinion writer at The New York Times, and the author of Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words (Avery, 2025), talks about his new book that digs into the cultural and linguistic history of pronoun usage in English and what light that sheds on today's controversies.