Lexicon Valley
A podcast about language, with hosts Mike Vuolo, Bob Garfield and John McWhorter.
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Episodes (360)
Who's Afraid of Ayesha Rascoe?
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What Is Miami English?
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Report of the Trial of Levi Weeks
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I Got My Nails Did!
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To v. Too
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Picture of Health
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The Right Stuff
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Age, Color, Origin, Material
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One for the Record Books
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Why Do People in Old Movies Talk Like That?
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Past Master
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Are You Tryna Hear This?
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The Ambassadors
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Apostrophe S
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Is "Knocked Up" Racist?
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What a Young Brain Can Do
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What Do You Talk?
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The Problem with You
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The Rodney Dangerfield Pronoun
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Is Negro a Slur or Just Antiquated?
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One Is the Loneliest Number
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Throw Up, Turn Out & Believe
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Why Fidget Poppers Are "Satisfying"
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Why Do We Dot Our i's?
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You Are SO Articulate. Really.
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When Words Collide
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The Haphazard History of C
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JFK's Most Famous Sentence
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The Evolution of Woke
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Reviving Dead Languages
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Let Sleeping Dogs Lay
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How Did Nigeria Get Its Name?
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Where Is the Name Ketanji From?
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A Linguistic Love Letter to Ukraine
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How About This Weather?
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Joe Rogan and the N-Word, by Way of Kyiv
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Son of a B*tch on a Hot Mic
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RIP: Sidney Poitier, Lani Guinier, Max Julien
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300 Years of Language Peevery
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Four Calling Birds? Not Exactly.
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Why Does the Letter A Look That Way?
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Happy Days Are Here
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In Language, Context Is King
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That's Not What Irony Means, Alanis
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Can You Play “Jew” in Scrabble?
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A*#holes and B%tches
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On the Singular They and Slippery Slopes
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The Pandemic's Effect on Language
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What Do They Speak in Afghanistan?
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The Morphing of Critical Race Theory
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