312: Nice Guys Finish Last
What do a cement mixer and a 1948 Cosmopolitan article have to do with the phrase "nice guys finish last"? In a bonus show for all listeners, Mike Vuolo and Bob Garfield explain.
🎧 Listen: https://t.co/3cwEemHTQV
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311: Happily Ever Arter
In a bonus segment for all listeners, @JohnHMcWhorter discusses a word from Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Jim pronounces "after" as "arter". Where did that come from?
🎧 Listen: https://t.co/5i8xiskrz2
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310: Grand Am
John McWhorter shares exciting new findings in his years-long study of the use of “you am” and “we am” in native English—outside of minstrelsy.
🎧Listen: https://t.co/WopNLlFXcF
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309: Haut Corn!
John McWhorter asks: What did Black New Yorkers sound like in the 1800s? Find out in this first of a two-part episode.
🎧 Listen: https://t.co/Afs9Gg7HSC
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308: A Quick Buck
A buck is a male deer. Or a dollar bill. Or a strapping lad. Or a poker term. Are they related? Bob Garfield passes
the buck to Mike Vuolo to find out.
🎧 Listen: https://t.co/LsvdcribJ5
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Bonus: Nice Work If You Can Get It
The Gershwin brothers wrote their hit song “Nice Work If You Can Get It” for a 1930’s musical. Did they coin the term?
🔑 Unlock bonus episodes to listen: https://t.co/SmFgxvZY0P
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307: Nice of You to Join Us
What Jane Austen have in common with George Carlin? Biting commentary on “nice”! Find someplace nice and quiet for Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo on a not entirely pleasant word.
🎧 Listen: https://t.co/TRGOS8xiPf
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306: The Dating Game, Great White Edition
Which came first, the Great White Shark or the Great White Way? Play along with Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo to guess the order in which three phrases were born.
🎧 Listen: https://t.co/vnPNDbeaHG
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305: The Original Maverick
Legend has it that Samuel Maverick was a 19th-century rancher who refused to brand his cattle—was he? Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo explore in this newly unlocked bonus episode.
🎧 Listen: https://t.co/paBBpd3rw8
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47: Get One’s Goat
When did we start getting each other's goats? Also, why goats? In this episode from the archives, linguist Ben Zimmer joins Mike Vuolo and Bob Garfield to investigate a caprine phrase.
🎧 Listen: https://t.co/S4B2N9e4Nw
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Delving into the origin of G.O.A.T. with linguistic pioneers from Muhammad Ali (@MuhammadAli) to Christen Flynn Goodwin (@CristinGoodwin).
🎧 Listen: https://t.co/Cwwxhu4wJF
304: The G.O.A.T.
Kids these days are goated. How did that happen? As Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo explain, an aggrandizing acronym seeded in the 1960s was born decades later.
🎧 Listen: https://t.co/Cwwxhu54zd
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304: The G.O.A.T.
Kids these days are goated. How did that happen? As Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo explain, an aggrandizing acronym seeded in the 1960s was born decades later.
🎧 Listen: https://t.co/Cwwxhu54zd
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280: The Amazing Great
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the soaring hyperbole of self-evaluation in this fan favorite from our archives.
🎧 Listen: https://t.co/es9YBEoJmp
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303: The Ethereal Omelet
On the elusive meaning of ethereal. Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo with a double dose of beautiful words—including the pleasant-sounding “mellifluous,” which means pleasant-sounding!
🎧 Listen: https://t.co/K421BQLdir
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302: The Most Beautiful Word
Poetry Society of America members have chosen the most beautiful word in the English language. Any guesses? This week, Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss worldly beauty.
Listen: https://t.co/6YrcjCk1CZ
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Bonus: Stuff and Nonsense
Paranoid about your paraphernalia? You’re in the right place. Listeners asked about the origin of two more “para” words; Mike Vuolo has answers.
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301: The Dating Game, Paranormal Edition
Which came first, "paramilitary" or "paranormal"? Join Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo to guess the chronological order of three 20th-cent “para” words.
🎧 Listen: https://t.co/qVlvKWcDFA
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300: Parasocial Climbing
Are you in a parasocial relationship? In the age of AI, perhaps we all are. Mike Vuolo and Bob Garfield trace the rise of “para” words from parasocial to parachute and paragraph.
🎧 Listen: https://t.co/YUAD794YeO
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