2022-02-16
41 分钟From Booksmart Studios, this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language.
I'm John McWhorter, and have you noticed how there's this new city in the news lately?
You know, you're kind of listening to the radio or watching TV,
and there's this city that you feel like, at least for a minute, you've never heard of.
It's this place called Kiev.
And I refer to what's going on right now, unfortunately, between Russia and Ukraine.
And so listen, for example, to a typical national public radio report on this city right now.
There's a whole world under the capital of Ukraine.
Thousands of bomb shelters, bunkers, and basements throughout Kyiv,
identified on a Google map the city has prepared in case Russia attacks.
Many of the shelters are remnants of the Cold War, now given new life.
We sent a team of reporters to check them out, including NPR's Daniel Estrin.
Deep under Kiev is a 1980s bunker.
Now, we probably know that in a not-too-distant day,
we would have been hearing that city referred to as Kiev.
There was the city of Kiev.
And, you know, you think of something like the dish.
You know what?
I have never made night... doubt if I ever will, is Chicken Kiev.
What is it?