What Is the Shape of This Word?

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Learn about words that sound like the thing they describe. 

Learn about words that sound like the thing they describe. 

Learn about words that sound like the thing they describe. 

Where did language come from? Is it possible to know without traveling back in time? And how do babies learn to speak? Plus: We’ll hear how the word “silly” has evolved over the last several hundred years. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.