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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![Special Announcement from Lexicon Valley]()
Special Announcement from Lexicon Valley
18/07/2012 Duration: 03minMike announces a run of all new episodes beginning later in the summer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Lexicon Valley #16: Our Dying Words]()
Lexicon Valley #16: Our Dying Words
09/07/2012 Duration: 23minBob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss what we lose when a language goes extinct. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Lexicon Valley #15: Then Is Now, Now and Then]()
Lexicon Valley #15: Then Is Now, Now and Then
02/07/2012 Duration: 32minBob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the historical present. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Lexicon Valley #14: By Their Words You Shall Know Them]()
Lexicon Valley #14: By Their Words You Shall Know Them
18/06/2012 Duration: 32minBob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss stylometry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Lexicon Valley #13: Capturing the Past]()
Lexicon Valley #13: Capturing the Past
11/06/2012 Duration: 40minBob Garfield and Mike Vuolo talk about how Mad Men and Downton Abbey can teach us about language change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Lexicon Valley #12: The Eloquence of Plain English]()
Lexicon Valley #12: The Eloquence of Plain English
04/06/2012 Duration: 32minBob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the Gettysburg Address. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Lexicon Valley #11: When Being Done Replaced Doing]()
Lexicon Valley #11: When Being Done Replaced Doing
27/05/2012 Duration: 28minBob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the most significant change to the English language that you've never heard of. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Lexicon Valley #10: One Giant Leap for Humanity]()
Lexicon Valley #10: One Giant Leap for Humanity
14/05/2012 Duration: 39minBob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the he said/she said of the epicene pronoun. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Lexicon Valley #9: And May He Be a Masculine Bridge]()
Lexicon Valley #9: And May He Be a Masculine Bridge
07/05/2012 Duration: 32minBob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss how a simple quirk of grammar may affect the way we think. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Lexicon Valley #8: When Nouns Grew Genitals]()
Lexicon Valley #8: When Nouns Grew Genitals
30/04/2012 Duration: 30minBob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss what it means for language to have gender. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Lexicon Valley #7: A Needle Pulling Thread]()
Lexicon Valley #7: A Needle Pulling Thread
23/04/2012 Duration: 30minBob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the big ambitions of the word "so." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Special Announcement from Lexicon Valley]()
Special Announcement from Lexicon Valley
04/04/2012 Duration: 03minMike announces a batch of brand new episodes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Lexicon Valley #6: A Meditation on Scrabble]()
Lexicon Valley #6: A Meditation on Scrabble
12/03/2012 Duration: 35minMike Vuolo talks to "Word Freak" author Stefan Fatsis about the nature of language in Scrabble. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Lexicon Valley #5: Untuning the String]()
Lexicon Valley #5: Untuning the String
05/03/2012 Duration: 37minBob Garfield and Mike Vuolo talk to author David Skinner about his book, The Story of Ain't, which will be published in the fall of 2012. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Lexicon Valley #4: Jumpin Salty in The O]()
Lexicon Valley #4: Jumpin' Salty in The O
27/02/2012 Duration: 41minBob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the vernacular wrapped in a dialect inside a language that some call Ebonics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Lexicon Valley #3: Consider the Lamppost]()
Lexicon Valley #3: Consider the Lamppost
20/02/2012 Duration: 30minBob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the hypercorrected incorrectness of "between you and I." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Lexicon Valley #2: A Bundle of Faggots]()
Lexicon Valley #2: A Bundle of Faggots
13/02/2012 Duration: 32minBob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the evolution of the word "faggot." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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![Lexicon Valley #1: A Sin of Which None Is Guilty]()
Lexicon Valley #1: A Sin of Which None Is Guilty
06/02/2012 Duration: 24minBob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the longstanding English language proscription against ending a sentence with a preposition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
