Lexicon Valley
A podcast about language, with hosts Mike Vuolo, Bob Garfield and John McWhorter.
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Episodes (360)
LinguaFile XVI | Boondoggle
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How New York Became the Big Apple
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LinguaFile XV | Gringo
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What Do You Mean What Is It Like?
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LinguaFile XIV | Heebie Jeebies
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What's the Deal with Translating Seinfeld?
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LinguaFile XIII | Bozo
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The Pollyanna Hypothesis
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LinguaFile XII | Kibitz
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M'athchomaroon, Zhey Lajak Vezhven!
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LinguaFile XI | Seersucker
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Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
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LinguaFile X | Pumpernickel
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And Infinitum
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LinguaFile IX | Carnival
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Sex Workers
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LinguaFile VIII | Quiz
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The Many Lives of Anna Karenina
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LinguaFile VII | Cockamamie
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Exposure to Vape Culture
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LinguaFile VI | Grog
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What Does It Mean to Sound Gay?
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LinguaFile V | Get One's Goat
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Number Theory
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LinguaFile IV | Snark
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Man on the Street
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LinguaFile III | Orange
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Demonstratively Speaking
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LinguaFile II | Lagniappe
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The Manic Pixie and the Magical Negro
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LinguaFile I | Discombobulate
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Fisherman's Whorf
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Legislating Language
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The Dude Abides
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Learning to Say No
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Ask Not Who Wrote "Ask Not"
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The End of Ambiguity
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The Burden of Being Right
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Name That Tone
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Eject at High Altitude
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30 Million By Four
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A Brief History of Swearing
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Accentuate the Positive
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The Fawth Flaw, Part II
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The Fawth Flaw
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Get Your Creak On
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Good Is Up
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Talking Leaves and Lightning Paper
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Undocumented Illegals
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Death to Potatoes
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