Lexicon Valley #2: A Bundle of Faggots

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Lexicon Valley #2: A Bundle of Faggots

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Feb 13, 2012

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Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the evolution of the word "faggot."Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Feb 13, 2012

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Lexicon Valley is a show about language, from pet peeves, syntax, and etymology to neurolinguistics and the death of languages. Hosted by linguist John McWhorter.

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Lexicon Valley #17: Ascent of the A-word: Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo talk to linguist Geoffrey Nunberg about his book Ascent of the A-word: A**holism, the First Sixty Years. by Slate Debates
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Lexicon Valley #2: A Bundle of Faggots: Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the evolution of the word "faggot." by Slate Debates
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Lexicon Valley #21: Undocumented Illegals: Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the debate over "illegal" versus "undocumented" at the heart of U.S. immigration policy. by Slate Debates
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Lexicon Valley #6: A Meditation on Scrabble: Mike Vuolo talks to "Word Freak" author Stefan Fatsis about the nature of language in Scrabble. by Slate Debates
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Lexicon Valley #3: Consider the Lamppost: Lexicon Valley #3: Consider the Lamppost by Slate Debates
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Lexicon Valley No. 33: The End of Ambiguity: Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo talk to linguist Arika Okrent about the most logical language ever invented. by Slate Debates
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Lexicon Valley #11: When Being Done Replaced Doing: Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the most significant change to the English language that you've never heard of. by Slate Debates
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Lexicon Valley #15: Then Is Now, Now and Then: Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the historical present. by Slate Debates
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Lexicon Valley #28: A Brief History of Swearing: Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss curse words old and new with author Melissa Mohr. by Slate Debates
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Special Announcement from Lexicon Valley: Mike announces a batch of brand new episodes. by Slate Debates
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Special Announcement from Lexicon Valley: Mike announces a run of all new episodes beginning later in the summer. by Slate Debates
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Lexicon Valley #9: And May He Be a Masculine Bridge: Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss how a simple quirk of grammar may affect the way we think. by Slate Debates
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Lexicon Valley #10: One Giant Leap for Humanity: Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the he said/she said of the epicene pronoun. by Slate Debates
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Lexicon Valley #7: A Needle Pulling Thread: Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the big ambitions of the word "so." by Slate Debates
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Lexicon Valley #8: When Nouns Grew Genitals: Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss what it means for language to have gender. by Slate Debates
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Special Announcement: Lexicon Valley will be back with a run of all-new episodes in the spring. by Slate Debates
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Lexicon Valley #19: Here's to You Mrs. Malaprop: Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss what malapropisms might reveal about the way we organize our mental dictionary. by Slate Debates
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Lexicon Valley #14: By Their Words You Shall Know Them: Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss stylometry. by Slate Debates
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Lexicon Valley #23: Good Is Up: Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss metaphor and the "fiscal cliff." by Slate Debates
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Lexicon Valley #29: 30 Million By Four: Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the importance of talking to your child. by Slate Debates
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Lexicon Valley #18: The Rate of Exchange: Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the commonly held belief that some languages are spoken faster than others. by Slate Debates
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Lexicon Valley #20: Death to Potatoes: Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo speak with Nataly Kelly, coauthor of Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World. by Slate Debates
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Lexicon Valley #16: Our Dying Words: Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss what we lose when a language goes extinct. by Slate Debates
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Lexicon Valley #2: A Bundle of Faggots

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