One Sentence With 7 Meanings Unlocks a Mystery of Human Speech

Published: June 29, 2018, 4:31 p.m.

b'Ruth Nell is talented talker. Always has been. As a child, her mother taught her to enunciate her words when she spoke, which she did often and at length. So wordy was she that, in grammar school, her friends nicknamed her "Yakky Roo," partly for her ace Yakky Doodle impersonation, but also for her loquaciousness.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'