Lexicon Valley
A podcast about language, with hosts Mike Vuolo, Bob Garfield and John McWhorter.
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Episodes (360)
S#!t, Hell and Darn
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This Family Speaks 1,200 Languages
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Language vs. Dialect
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The Internet Loves the Exclamation Point!!
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Why Is “Ph” Pronounced That Way?
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Does Language Affect Thought?
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A Fleeting Glance
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The Romance Languages
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Why Do Some Americans Say Warshed?
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Flores Man vs. Sulawesi
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The Lingua Francas
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Can Climate Influence Language?
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When Ain’t Was All Right
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The Semitic Tongues
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Precious Little
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When Words Collide
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Truth Be Told
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A Penetrating History of F*%k
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When Did English Get Happy?
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Why Language Can’t Be Tamed
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Is Social Media Changing English?
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What Was the First Language?
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So … Let’s Talk About So
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Like-Minded
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Why Do Southerners Talk Like That?
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The Habitual Past
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A Riot of Color
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The Rise of They
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Wabbit Twacks
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Tee Time
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Happy Birthday, OED!
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If Frozen, Why Not Squozen?
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The Pronouning of Profanities
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One Tongue to Rule Them All
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The Art of the Spiel
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Getting to Yes
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The Story of P
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English Spelling is a Beautiful Mess
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Did the Founding Fathers Have a British Accent?
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No-Uh!
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The Inner Workings of Out
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Words, For Her
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What's the Deal with Eleven?
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There Are Two N-Words
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The Thing Is Is
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An Accidental Sanctity
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Thanksgiving Misnomers
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Sometimes Just Because
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Against Strunk and White
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Whence Baby Mama?
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