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342. Valerie Fridland — Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English

The Michael Shermer Show

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The Origins of Boomer

The Oxford English Dictionary is an old dictionary, but it's actually not the most influential in that period. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary was really the most influential dictionary of that that century. And then, you know, no, Webster, of course, later was influential in American speech. So I feel. That started with Obama, right? The funny thing is my teenage son and he actually did say that to me.

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