Oversleeping at the Sleepover

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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 what?

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  Prepositions are more interesting than they seem,

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  and it is time for me to talk about them.

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  I've been thinking about doing it for a long time,

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  but I didn't have an angle, and now I think I do.

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  So, let's imagine you say, what in the hell is that?

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  What in the hell is that?

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  Now,

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  notice that's a little precise

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  because really there are two ways that we would usually say that.

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  Either we leave out the the and we say, what in hell is that?

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  Or we leave out the in and we say, what the hell is that?

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  Probably that one is more common.

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  But instead of what in the hell is that?

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  It's either what in hell is that?

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  Or what the hell is that?

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  Where what the hell is short for what in the hell is that?

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  If you say, what the hell is that?

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  What part of speech is the hell?

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