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 <ul> <li>Start: 0:00</li> <li>Intros: 1:17</li> <li>News: 12:40</li> <li>Related or Not: 33:34</li> <li>Chat with Kory Stamper, author of True Color: 50:43</li> <li>Words of the Week: 1:41:58</li> <li>Comment from Lauretta: 2:04:57</li> <li>The Reads: 2:08:14</li> <li>Outtakes: 2:16:48</li> </ul>

<description>&lt;p&gt;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 &lt;strong&gt;Kory Stamper&lt;/strong&gt; tells us all about it, and about her new book &lt;em&gt;True Color&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Timestamps&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;Start: 0:00&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Intros: 1:17&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;News: 12:40&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Related or Not: 33:34&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Chat with Kory Stamper, author of &lt;em&gt;True Color&lt;/em&gt;: 50:43&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Words of the Week: 1:41:58&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Comment from Lauretta: 2:04:57&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;The Reads: 2:08:14&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;Outtakes: 2:16:48&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;</description>

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134: True Colour (with Kory Stamper)

134: True Colour (with Kory Stamper)

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