Lexicon Valley
Lexicon Valley
A podcast about language, with hosts Mike Vuolo, Bob Garfield and John McWhorter.
Episodes
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Nov 3, 2014 • 27min
Number Theory
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo ask the question: How did we go from "four and twenty" to "twenty four"?
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Oct 20, 2014 • 42min
LinguaFile IV | Snark
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss a mystery word or phrase with lexicographer Ben Zimmer.
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Oct 6, 2014 • 38min
Man on the Street
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo talk to Jonathon Green, author of "The Vulgar Tongue" and "Green's Dictionary of Slang"-- a 6,000-page, three-volume reference more than 20 years in the making.
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Sep 22, 2014 • 29min
LinguaFile III | Orange
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss a mystery word or phrase with lexicographer Ben Zimmer.
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Sep 8, 2014 • 30min
Demonstratively Speaking
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss Sarah Palin's use of demonstrative pronouns.
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Aug 25, 2014 • 24min
LinguaFile II | Lagniappe
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss a mystery word or phrase with lexicographer Ben Zimmer.
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Aug 11, 2014 • 30min
The Manic Pixie and the Magical Negro
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo talk to arts critic Nathan Rabin and journalist Christopher John Farley about the phrases they coined to identify two of Hollywood's most pernicious tropes.
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Jul 28, 2014 • 18min
LinguaFile I | Discombobulate
Mike Vuolo and Bob Garfield discuss a mystery word or phrase with Ben Zimmer.
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Jul 14, 2014 • 34min
Fisherman's Whorf
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo talk to Columbia University professor John McWhorter about his new book, The Language Hoax.
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Mar 10, 2014 • 32min
Legislating Language
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss four legal cases in which the dictionary played a crucial part.
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