Lexicon Valley

Lexicon Valley

  • Author: Vários
  • Narrator: Vários
  • Publisher: Podcast
  • Duration: 257:58:19
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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.

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Episodes

  • Special Announcement from Lexicon Valley

    Special Announcement from Lexicon Valley
    18/07/2012 Duration: 03min

    Mike 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: 23min

    Bob 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: 32min

    Bob 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: 32min

    Bob 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: 40min

    Bob 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: 32min

    Bob 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: 28min

    Bob 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: 39min

    Bob 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: 32min

    Bob 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: 30min

    Bob 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: 30min

    Bob 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: 03min

    Mike 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: 35min

    Mike 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: 37min

    Bob 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: 41min

    Bob 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: 30min

    Bob 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: 32min

    Bob 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: 24min

    Bob 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

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