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Slate Debates episodes

October 20, 2014 LinguaFile IV | Snark
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss a mystery word or phrase with lexicographer Ben Zimmer.
Show notes at www.slate.com/lexiconvalley.

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45 min
October 06, 2014 Man on the Street
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo talk to Jonathon Green, author of The Vulgar Tongue and Green's Dictionary of Slang, a 6,000-page, three-volume reference more than 20 years in the making.
Show notes at www.slate.com/lexiconvalley.

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41 min
September 22, 2014 LinguaFile III | Orange
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss a mystery word or phrase with lexicographer Ben Zimmer.
Show notes at www.slate.com/lexiconvalley.

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32 min
September 08, 2014 Demonstratively Speaking
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss Sarah Palin's use of demonstrative pronouns.
Show notes at www.slate.com/lexiconvalley.

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33 min
August 25, 2014 LinguaFile II | Lagniappe
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss a mystery word or phrase with lexicographer Ben Zimmer.
Show notes at www.slate.com/lexiconvalley.

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27 min
August 11, 2014 The Manic Pixie and the Magical Negro
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo talk to arts critic Nathan Rabin and journalist Christopher John Farley about the phrases they coined to identify two of Hollywood's most pernicious tropes.
Show notes at www.slate.com/lexiconvalley.

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33 min
July 28, 2014 LinguaFile I | Discombobulate
Mike Vuolo and Bob Garfield discuss a mystery word or phrase with Vocabulary.com executive producer Ben Zimmer.
Show notes at www.slate.com/lexiconvalley. Follow @lexiconvalley.

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21 min
July 14, 2014 Lexicon Valley No. 38: Fisherman's Whorf
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo talk to Columbia University professor John McWhorter about his new book, The Language Hoax.
Show notes at www.slate.com/lexiconvalley.

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37 min
March 10, 2014 Lexicon Valley No. 37: Legislating Language
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss four legal cases in which the dictionary played a crucial part.

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35 min
January 27, 2014 Lexicon Valley No. 36: The Dude Abides
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the early history of the word "dude."
Show notes at www.slate.com/lexiconvalley.

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39 min

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