Let Sleeping Dogs Lay

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  From Booksmart Studios, this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language.

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  I'm John McWhorter, and you know, I first hosted Lexicon Valley in June of 2016.

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  And what that means is that here I am now, six years later,

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  doing, believe it or not, my 150th episode of this show.

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  And you know what?

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  That deserves some kind of celebration, and I'm going to have one.

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  For my 150th show, I want to just do something I've been holding back on for about six years.

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  It's a modest proposal, and it's going to annoy a lot of you, but you know what?

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  This is my party, and I can cry if I want to, and we're going to talk about lie and lay.

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  Yes, lie and lay.

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  So much concern about that.

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  lie and lay are these two very similar verbs and it's considered the height of sophistication to figure out how they are to be used

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  because even

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  if you're a relatively diligent person it can be difficult to keep the details in your head we wonder how to use them properly It's like how to play the clarinet.

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  Well, here's how you do it.

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  How might you fix your dishwasher yourself?

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  Well, here is how to do it.

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  And there'll be some YouTube video.

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  Well, lie and lay.

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  Well, we don't know how to use it properly.

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