Lexicon Valley
A podcast about language, with hosts Mike Vuolo, Bob Garfield and John McWhorter.
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Episodes (360)
Este No Es Parqueo
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From Pidgins to Creoles
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Do Languages Simplify Over Time?
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Did Cavebabies Say Mama and Papa?
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New Life for Dying Languages
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Negatory! A Brief History of No.
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Why Do Languages Have Contractions?
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The Incredible Lightness of Being
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Is There a Jewish Way of Talking?
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Mining Graffiti for Slang
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Don't Tell Me Reune Is Not a Word
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The Language of Female Friendships
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The Euphemism Treadmill
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Heyo, Let's Talk About Hamilton
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How Did Americans Talk a Hundred Years Ago?
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Like, Why Do We Use Like So Much?
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What Had Happened Was Storytelling
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Why We Stopped Teaching Children How to Read
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Away in a Penthouse, the Little Lord Jesus
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What "The Wizard of Oz" Can Tell Us About "Arrival"
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Black Like Us
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Language Lessons of Past Presidents
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How You Vanquished Ye, Thee and Thou
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Why Do People in Old Movies Talk Like That?
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Billy and Me Went to the Store
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What Is a Dictionary, Really?
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The Invisible Language of Nursery Rhymes
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Word Sex
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Should Shakespeare Get a Modern English Makeover?
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Are Emoji a Language?
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Finding Life in a Dead Language
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Rules Are Made to Be Spoken
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Should We Make English Spelling Easier?
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Your Brain on Profanity
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LinguaFile XXIV | Roshambo
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The Blaccent
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LinguaFile XXIII | Red Herring
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Defecation Presentation
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LinguaFile XXII | Grain of Salt
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The Full, Firm, Valiant and Heavy-Hearted Trump
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LinguaFile XXI | Wazzock
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The Fall and Rise of the Singular They
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LinguaFile XX | In Cahoots
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Tears of Joy, Identity and a Prism of Isms
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LinguaFile XIX | 86'd
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Snoozefest
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LinguaFile XVIII | Hootenanny
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A Cat, a Coward and Female Genitalia
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LinguaFile XVII | Humdinger
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Seven Centuries of F--ks
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