134: True Colour (with Kory Stamper)

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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134: True Colour (with Kory Stamper) is an episode from Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language. by Daniel Midgley.

This episode is 02:21:18 long.

This episode was published on Mar 13, 2026.

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