Latest Episodes

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss creaky voice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

December 31, 2012 · 26 min 3 sec

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss metaphor and the "fiscal cliff." Twitter: @lexiconvalley Facebook: facebook.com/LexiconValley Website: booksmartstudios.com/LexiconValley

December 17, 2012 · 27 min 26 sec

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the Cherokee syllabary. Twitter: @lexiconvalley Facebook: facebook.com/LexiconValley Website: booksmartstudios.com/LexiconValley

December 3, 2012 · 28 min 36 sec

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the debate over "illegal" versus "undocumented" at the heart of U.S. immigration policy. Twitter: @lexiconvalley Facebook: facebook.com/LexiconValley Website: boo...

November 12, 2012 · 32 min 52 sec

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo speak with Nataly Kelly, coauthor of "Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World." Twitter: @lexiconvalley Facebook: facebook.com/Lexico...

October 29, 2012 · 32 min 3 sec

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss what malapropisms might reveal about the way we organize our mental dictionary. Twitter: @lexiconvalley Facebook: facebook.com/LexiconValley Website: booksmartstu...

October 15, 2012 · 30 min 50 sec

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the commonly held belief that some languages are spoken faster than others. Twitter: @lexiconvalley Facebook: facebook.com/LexiconValley Website: booksmartstudios...

October 1, 2012 · 24 min 37 sec

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo talk to linguist Geoffrey Nunberg about his book, "Ascent of the A-Word: A**holism, the First Sixty Years." Twitter: @lexiconvalley Facebook: facebook.com/LexiconValley W...

September 17, 2012 · 25 min 21 sec

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss what we lose when a language goes extinct. Twitter: @lexiconvalley Facebook: facebook.com/LexiconValley Website: booksmartstudios.com/LexiconValley

July 9, 2012 · 21 min 10 sec

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the historical present. Twitter: @lexiconvalley Facebook: facebook.com/LexiconValley Website: booksmartstudios.com/LexiconValley

July 2, 2012 · 29 min 34 sec

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss stylometry. Twitter: @lexiconvalley Facebook: facebook.com/LexiconValley Website: booksmartstudios.com/LexiconValley

June 18, 2012 · 30 min 29 sec

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss how Mad Men and Downton Abbey can teach us about language change. Twitter: @lexiconvalley Facebook: facebook.com/LexiconValley Website: booksmartstudios.com/Lexic...

June 11, 2012 · 37 min 33 sec

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the Gettysburg Address. Twitter: @lexiconvalley Facebook: facebook.com/LexiconValley Website: booksmartstudios.com/LexiconValley

June 4, 2012 · 30 min 3 sec

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the most significant change to the English language that you've never heard of. Twitter: @lexiconvalley Facebook: facebook.com/LexiconValley Website: booksmartstu...

May 27, 2012 · 26 min 14 sec

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the he said/she said of the epicene pronoun. Twitter: @lexiconvalley Facebook: facebook.com/LexiconValley Website: booksmartstudios.com/LexiconValley

May 14, 2012 · 37 min 28 sec

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss how a simple quirk of grammar may affect the way we think. Twitter: @lexiconvalley Facebook: facebook.com/LexiconValley Website: booksmartstudios.com/LexiconValle...

May 7, 2012 · 29 min 30 sec

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss what it means for language to have gender. Twitter: @lexiconvalley Facebook: facebook.com/LexiconValley Website: booksmartstudios.com/LexiconValley

April 30, 2012 · 28 min 0 sec

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the big ambitions of the word "so." Twitter: @lexiconvalley Facebook: facebook.com/LexiconValley Website: booksmartstudios.com/LexiconValley

April 23, 2012 · 27 min 49 sec

Mike Vuolo talks to "Word Freak" author Stefan Fatsis about the nature of language in Scrabble. Twitter: @lexiconvalley Facebook: facebook.com/LexiconValley Website: booksmartstudios.com/LexiconVall...

March 12, 2012 · 33 min 15 sec

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo talk to author David Skinner about his book, The Story of Ain't. Twitter: @lexiconvalley Facebook: facebook.com/LexiconValley Website: booksmartstudios.com/LexiconValley

March 5, 2012 · 34 min 52 sec