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Lexicon Valley is an audio show dissecting this messy, maddening and thoroughly wonderful thing we call language.
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Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the vernacular wrapped in a dialect inside a language that some call Ebonics. Twitter: @lexiconvalley Facebook: facebook.com/LexiconValley Website: booksmartstudi...
· 38 min 38 sec
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the hypercorrected incorrectness of "between you and I." Twitter: @lexiconvalley Facebook: facebook.com/LexiconValley Website: booksmartstudios.com/LexiconValley
· 27 min 39 sec
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the evolution of the word "faggot." Twitter: @lexiconvalley Facebook: facebook.com/LexiconValley Website: booksmartstudios.com/LexiconValley
· 30 min 17 sec
Remastered episode! We all learned that you’re not supposed to end a sentence with a preposition. But from where did this alleged rule come? And why does it encumber us with such labored sentences as...
· 21 min 24 sec