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October 01, 2012 Lexicon Valley #18: The Rate of Exchange
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the commonly held belief that some languages are spoken faster than others.

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28 min
September 17, 2012 Lexicon Valley #17: Ascent of the A-word
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo talk to linguist Geoffrey Nunberg about his book Ascent of the A-word: A**holism, the First Sixty Years.

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28 min
July 18, 2012 Special Announcement from Lexicon Valley
Mike announces a run of all new episodes beginning later in the summer.

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4 min
July 09, 2012 Lexicon Valley #16: Our Dying Words
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss what we lose when a language goes extinct.

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24 min
July 02, 2012 Lexicon Valley #15: Then Is Now, Now and Then
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the historical present.

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33 min
June 18, 2012 Lexicon Valley #14: By Their Words You Shall Know Them
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss stylometry.

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33 min
June 11, 2012 Lexicon Valley #13: Capturing the Past
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo talk about how Mad Men and Downton Abbey can teach us about language change.

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41 min
June 04, 2012 Lexicon Valley #12: The Eloquence of Plain English
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the Gettysburg Address.

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33 min
May 27, 2012 Lexicon Valley #11: When Being Done Replaced Doing
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the most significant change to the English language that you've never heard of.

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29 min
May 14, 2012 Lexicon Valley #10: One Giant Leap for Humanity
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the he said/she said of the epicene pronoun.

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40 min

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