Discussion Forum—A Way with Words, a fun radio show and podcast about language

Professor John McWhorter Shares Insights On Race, Language. "I remember telling the teachers, no you're wrong, it's ‘i-n-c.' And this is what's important - this is not me telling black teachers within a community, where everybody thought it was cute. I was a black kid in 1970 telling my white teachers I was smarter than them and thinking nothing of it,” says McWhorter. “That was the kind of kid I was, I irritated a lot of them. And so I suppose my one problem is if something doesn't cohere to me, it irritates me."