Synopsis
Lexicon Valley is a show about language, from pet peeves, syntax, and etymology to neurolinguistics and the death of languages. Hosted by linguist John McWhorter.
Episodes
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![LinguaFile VIII | Quiz]()
LinguaFile VIII | Quiz
09/02/2015 Duration: 26minBob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss a mystery word or phrase with lexicographer Ben Zimmer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![The Many Lives of Anna Karenina]()
The Many Lives of Anna Karenina
26/01/2015 Duration: 39minBob Garfield and Mike Vuolo talk to journalist and author Masha Gessen about translating Tolstoy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![LinguaFile VII | Cockamamie]()
LinguaFile VII | Cockamamie
12/01/2015 Duration: 34minBob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss a mystery word or phrase with lexicographer Ben Zimmer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Exposure to Vape Culture]()
Exposure to Vape Culture
29/12/2014 Duration: 51minBob Garfield and Mike Vuolo are joined by Peter Sokolowski of Merriam-Webster, Katherine Martin of Oxford University Press, Jane Solomon of Dictionary.com, and Erin McKean of Wordnik.com to discuss their respective Words of the Year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![LinguaFile VI | Grog]()
LinguaFile VI | Grog
15/12/2014 Duration: 27minBob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss a mystery word or phrase with lexicographer Ben Zimmer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![What Does It Mean to Sound Gay?]()
What Does It Mean to Sound Gay?
01/12/2014 Duration: 39minBob Garfield and Mike Vuolo talk to speech scientist Benjamin Munson about the "gay voice." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![LinguaFile V | Get Ones Goat]()
LinguaFile V | Get One's Goat
17/11/2014 Duration: 35minBob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss a mystery word or phrase with lexicographer Ben Zimmer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Number Theory]()
Number Theory
03/11/2014 Duration: 29minBob Garfield and Mike Vuolo ask the question: How did we go from "four and twenty" to "twenty four"? Show notes at www.slate.com/lexiconvalley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![LinguaFile IV | Snark]()
LinguaFile IV | Snark
20/10/2014 Duration: 44minBob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss a mystery word or phrase with lexicographer Ben Zimmer. Show notes at www.slate.com/lexiconvalley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Man on the Street]()
Man on the Street
06/10/2014 Duration: 40minBob 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. Show notes at www.slate.com/lexiconvalley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![LinguaFile III | Orange]()
LinguaFile III | Orange
22/09/2014 Duration: 31minBob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss a mystery word or phrase with lexicographer Ben Zimmer. Show notes at www.slate.com/lexiconvalley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Demonstratively Speaking]()
Demonstratively Speaking
08/09/2014 Duration: 32minBob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss Sarah Palin's use of demonstrative pronouns. Show notes at www.slate.com/lexiconvalley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![LinguaFile II | Lagniappe]()
LinguaFile II | Lagniappe
25/08/2014 Duration: 26minBob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss a mystery word or phrase with lexicographer Ben Zimmer. Show notes at www.slate.com/lexiconvalley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![The Manic Pixie and the Magical Negro]()
The Manic Pixie and the Magical Negro
11/08/2014 Duration: 32minBob 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. Show notes at www.slate.com/lexiconvalley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![LinguaFile I | Discombobulate]()
LinguaFile I | Discombobulate
28/07/2014 Duration: 20minMike Vuolo and Bob Garfield discuss a mystery word or phrase with Vocabulary.com executive producer Ben Zimmer. Show notes at www.slate.com/lexiconvalley. Follow @lexiconvalley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Lexicon Valley No. 38: Fishermans Whorf]()
Lexicon Valley No. 38: Fisherman's Whorf
14/07/2014 Duration: 36minBob Garfield and Mike Vuolo talk to Columbia University professor John McWhorter about his new book, The Language Hoax. Show notes at www.slate.com/lexiconvalley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Lexicon Valley No. 37: Legislating Language]()
Lexicon Valley No. 37: Legislating Language
10/03/2014 Duration: 34minBob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss four legal cases in which the dictionary played a crucial part. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Lexicon Valley No. 36: The Dude Abides]()
Lexicon Valley No. 36: The Dude Abides
27/01/2014 Duration: 38minBob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the early history of the word "dude." Show notes at www.slate.com/lexiconvalley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Lexicon Valley No. 35: Learning to Say No]()
Lexicon Valley No. 35: Learning to Say No
23/12/2013 Duration: 27minBob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the many meanings of a child's "no." Show notes at www.slate.com/lexiconvalley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Lexicon Valley No. 34: Ask Not Who Wrote Ask Not]()
Lexicon Valley No. 34: Ask Not Who Wrote "Ask Not"
16/12/2013 Duration: 31minBob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss JFK's Inaugural Address with Richard Tofel, author of Sounding the Trumpet. Show notes at www.slate.com/lexiconvalley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
