134: True Colour (with Kory Stamper)
Mar 13, 2026•2 hr 21 min
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Episode description
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
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