Ben Schott: An Unexpectedly Essential Guide to Language
Podcast: The Book Club (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Ben Schott: An Unexpectedly Essential Guide to LanguagePub date: 2025-10-07Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationhis week’s Book Club podcast is Ben Schott. The author of the world- (or downstairs-loo-) conquering Schott’s Original Miscellany returns with Schott’s Significa, a deeply reported and constantly surprising book in which he uses the private languages of various communities – from gondoliers to graffiti writers and from Swifties to sommeliers – as a way of…
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