Lexicon Valley #19: Here's to You Mrs. Malaprop
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss what malapropisms might reveal about the way we organize our...
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Lexicon Valley #18: The Rate of Exchange
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the commonly held belief that some languages are spoken...
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Lexicon Valley #17: Ascent of the A-word
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo talk to linguist Geoffrey Nunberg about his book Ascent of the...
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Lexicon Valley #16: Our Dying Words
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss what we lose when a language goes extinct.
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Lexicon Valley #15: Then Is Now, Now and Then
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the historical present.
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Lexicon Valley #14: By Their Words You Shall Know Them
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss stylometry.
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Lexicon Valley #13: Capturing the Past
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo talk about how Mad Men and Downton Abbey can teach us about language...
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Lexicon Valley #12: The Eloquence of Plain English
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the Gettysburg Address.
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Lexicon Valley #11: When Being Done Replaced Doing
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the most significant change to the English language that...
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Lexicon Valley #10: One Giant Leap for Humanity
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the he said/she said of the epicene pronoun.
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Lexicon Valley #9: And May He Be a Masculine Bridge
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss how a simple quirk of grammar may affect the way we think.
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Lexicon Valley #8: When Nouns Grew Genitals
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss what it means for language to have gender.
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Lexicon Valley #7: A Needle Pulling Thread
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the big ambitions of the word "so."
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Lexicon Valley #5: Untuning the String
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo talk to author David Skinner about his book, The Story of Ain't,...
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Lexicon Valley #4: Jumpin' Salty in The O
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the vernacular wrapped in a dialect inside a language that...
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Lexicon Valley #3: Consider the Lamppost
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the hypercorrected incorrectness of "between you and I."
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Lexicon Valley #2: A Bundle of Faggots
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the evolution of the word "faggot."
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Lexicon Valley #1: A Sin of Which None Is Guilty
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the longstanding English language proscription against ending...
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'The Amazing Spider-Man' - Our Anniversary Review
In a bumper edition of the podcast Jonathan and Matt celebrate their one year podcast-versary by...
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