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Know what 'Skibidi' or 'Fanum Tax' mean? Read up or get 'ratio'd!'

What does no cap mean? What does cap mean? There's a difference between the two, but the slang terms point to lying while the other means you're telling the truth.

Language has power. This was a hard-earned lesson for Vivian Nixon and Elaine Richardson, two women who were told all their lives that their way of talking – talking Black – was something to be kept out of public and professional spaces. This episode follows their separate journeys to embrace the history, beauty, and breadth of Black English, and liberate long-buried parts of themselves in the process.

How someone talks is complicated. It depends on where they’re from, where they spent their formative years, if they moved around, and whether they’re consciously trying to alter how people perceive them. But beneath it all are the regional roots of a person’s speech—those patterns of pronunciation, shaped by long histories of settlement and migration, that can pin an individual down to a surprisingly small patch of the map. Despite this, however, for decades the study of American Englis...