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May 07, 2012 Lexicon Valley #9: And May He Be a Masculine Bridge
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss how a simple quirk of grammar may affect the way we think.

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32 min
April 30, 2012 Lexicon Valley #8: When Nouns Grew Genitals
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss what it means for language to have gender.

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31 min
April 23, 2012 Lexicon Valley #7: A Needle Pulling Thread
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the big ambitions of the word "so."

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31 min
April 04, 2012 Special Announcement from Lexicon Valley
Mike announces a batch of brand new episodes.

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4 min
March 12, 2012 Lexicon Valley #6: A Meditation on Scrabble
Mike Vuolo talks to "Word Freak" author Stefan Fatsis about the nature of language in Scrabble.

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36 min
March 05, 2012 Lexicon Valley #5: Untuning the String
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.

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38 min
February 27, 2012 Lexicon Valley #4: Jumpin' Salty in The O
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the vernacular wrapped in a dialect inside a language that some call Ebonics.

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42 min
February 20, 2012 Lexicon Valley #3: Consider the Lamppost
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the hypercorrected incorrectness of "between you and I."

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31 min
February 13, 2012 Lexicon Valley #2: A Bundle of Faggots
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the evolution of the word "faggot."

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33 min
February 06, 2012 Lexicon Valley #1: A Sin of Which None Is Guilty
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the longstanding English language proscription against ending a sentence with a preposition.

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25 min

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