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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
#lexiconvalley #onlanguage #podcast
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
#lexiconvalley #onlanguage #podcast
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
#lexiconvalley #onlanguage #podcast
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
#lexiconvalley #onlanguage #podcast
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
#lexiconvalley #onlanguage #podcast
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
#lexiconvalley #onlanguage #podcast
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
#lexiconvalley #onlanguage #podcast
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
#lexiconvalley #onlanguage #podcast
Aren't you just tired of posts which say stupid things like 'If you a genius, name a word which starts with B and ends with Y' or 'If you think you know English, tell me a word that starts with K and ends with W'
Are they chatbots or are plain stupid people?
#OnLanguage
299: The Lowdown on Lowkey
John McWhorter on the hidden logic of "lowkey." Plus, where did all those terms of venery originate—like a flamboyance of flamingos, a murder of crows and a parliament of owls?
🎧Listen: https://t.co/KzomVyIFlf
#lexiconvalley #onlanguage #podcast
297: A Perfect Episode
"Perfect!" is everywhere. Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo examine the evolution and ubiquity of a flawless word.
🎧Listen: https://t.co/DpoZuPPVG8
#lexiconvalley #onlanguage #podcast
291: Open Season for Racists
Like 'analog watch' and 'snail mail,' 'openly racist' is a retronym — John McWhorter and Mike Vuolo explain.
🎧 Listen: https://t.co/YnNthbu3mV
#lexiconvalley #onlanguage #podcast
Bonus: Sleeping with the Fishes
A mobster sleeps with the fishes. Does the phrase predate The Godfather? Could Homer hold a clue? Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo angle for answers.
🔑Unlock bonus episodes to listen: https://t.co/uRvMxRfTeZ
#lexiconvalley #onlanguage #podcast
290: Playing the Angles
From St. John the Apostle to Miller’s Crossing grifter Bernie Bernbaum—and from fishing to geometry—Mike Vuolo and Bob Garfield cast about for the origin of ‘angle.’
🎧Listen: https://t.co/6I7U5CSePP
#lexiconvalley #onlanguage #podcast #angle #angler
289: You Get the Gist
During an appearance on The Gist with Mike Pesca, hosts Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discussed the curious backstory of, you guessed it, the word gist.
🎧Listen: https://t.co/ktcMrI1LSv
#lexiconvalley #podcast #onlanguage #gist #thegist
288: Derek Guy on the Language of Clothing
The vocabulary of outerwear and dress as a form of social language with the menswear historian behind @dieworkwear.
🎧Listen: https://t.co/7OQR5izyT8
#lexiconvalley #podcast #onlanguage #derekguy #dieworkwear
287: McWhorter vs. McWhorter
The world was shocked by a controversial article published by "John McWhorter." Here, he sets the record straight. 🎧 Listen: https://t.co/4QSDYdKfgh
#lexiconvalley #onlanguage #podcast #johnmcwhorter
285: All the Rage Bait
Oxford English Dictionary editor Fiona McPherson talks to host Mike Vuolo on the 2025 #woty terms that caught her attention. 🎧 Listen: https://t.co/iukmWuIQAG
#lexiconvalley #oed #fionamcpherson #ragebait #aura #aurafarming #biohack #onlanguage #podcast
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