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Mike Vuolo and Bob Garfield interview Richard Tofel on his book Sound the Trumpet: The Making of John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address, revealing the startling authorship behind JFK’s most famous words...
· 27 min 36 sec
What did English sound like during the Revolutionary War? John has a number of fascinating observations about the way the language was spoken back then — including the accents! Twitter: @lexiconvalle...
· 29 min 57 sec
Over isn’t just the opposite of under and off is not necessarily the opposite of on. John explains. Twitter: @lexiconvalley Facebook: facebook.com/LexiconValley Website: booksmartstudios.com/LexiconV...
· 25 min 9 sec
John talks about the subject of his new book by Avery Publishing — Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words. Twitter: @lexiconvalley Facebook: facebook.com/LexiconValley Website: booksm...
· 21 min 6 sec
About Lexicon Valley
A close examination of language — its power to inform and misinform, to elucidate and obfuscate. Founded in 2012, the erudite and irreverent audio show Lexicon Valley analyzes the words and phrases that dominate our discourse and make the headlines.
John McWhorter (host) teaches linguistics at Columbia University and writes a column for the New York Times. He earned a PhD in Linguistics from Stanford University and is the author of several books, including The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language, Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter and Word on the Street, about dialects and Black English.
Mike Vuolo (host) is the editor of Lexicon Valley and founder of Booksmart Studios. Born into a family of both Italians and Jews, his childhood was filled with exaggerated hand gestures, loving care and hysterical worry, all now channeled productively into radio. Vuolo has produced audio programs for outlets including Slate and WNYC.
Bob Garfield (host) is an essayist, pundit, and inveterate caster, both broadly and podly. A former correspondent for NPR’s All Things Considered and longtime co-host of WNYC’s award-winning On the Media, Garfield is also the dashing and arthritic author of American Manifesto: Saving Democracy from Villains, Vandals and Ourselves.
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