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: lexiconvalley.supportingcast.fm/listen/lexic... #lexiconvalley #podcast #onlanguage #gist @milkepescs.bsky.social

Bonus: What Is a Blazer? Derek Guy (@dieworkwear.bsky.social) on the blazer, associated with prep schools and date nights. Where does the term originate? 🔑 Unlock bonus episodes to listen: lexiconvalley.supportingcast.fm/listen/lexic... #lexiconvalley #podcast #derekguy #onlanguage #blazer #bonus

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.bsky.social. 🎧Listen: lexiconvalley.supportingcast.fm/listen/lexic... #lexiconvalley #podcast #onlanguage #derekguy #dieworkwearg

Bonus: Why We Don't Say "the" Ukraine John McWhorter on why, and a Slavic language few have heard of. Plus: what do you call two Slovenian blacksmiths? (It’s not Lovro and Oskar.) 🔑 Unlock bonus episodes to listen: lexiconvalley.supportingcast.fm/listen/lexic... #lexiconvalley #podcast

287: McWhorter vs. McWhorter The world was shocked by a controversial article published by "John McWhorter." Here, he sets the record straight. 🎧 Listen: lexiconvalley.supportingcast.fm/listen/lexic... #lexiconvalley #onlanguage #podcast #johnmcwhorter

Thanks for another very entertaining and informative episode. Ad salute tuam bibo.

286: A Toast to Toast From a medieval recipe for Glazed Sops to the Ghostbusters franchise, Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo raise a glass to the unlikely journey of the word toast. 🎧 Listen: lexiconvalley.supportingcast.fm/listen/lexic... #lexiconvalley #toast #nye #happynewyear #happy2026 #podcast

285: All the Rage Bait Oxford English Dictionary editor Fiona McPherson talks to host Mike Vuolo about the terms that caught her attention this year. 🎧 Listen: lexiconvalley.supportingcast.fm/listen/lexic... #lexiconvalley #oed #woty #ragebait #aura #aurafarming #biohack #onlanguage #podcast

Bonus: From Onism to Perdickety John Koenig weighs in on a few of Mike Vuolo's obscure sorrows — what are yours? 🔑 Unlock bonus episodes to listen: lexiconvalley.supportingcast.fm/listen/lexic... #lexiconvalley #onlanguage #podcast #onism #perdickety #neologism #obscuresorrows

284: The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows Author John Koenig talks about inventing words for those subtle emotions that hitherto had no name. 🎧 Listen: lexiconvalley.supportingcast.fm/listen/lexic... #lexiconvalley #anemoia #obscuresorrows #dictionaryofobscuresorrows #onlanguage #podcast

6 7: Everything You Don't Know About the Word of the Year Mike Vuolo and Bob Garfield join and The Gist’s Mike Pesca @milkepescs.bsky.social to talk #67 —from rapper Skrilla to the basketball court to #wordoftheyear. 🎧 Listen: lexiconvalley.supportingcast.fm/listen/lexic... #podcast #lexiconvalley

Bonus: The Original Maverick The story of the word maverick has many versions. This one is true. 🔑 Unlock bonus episodes to listen: lexiconvalley.supportingcast.fm/listen/lexic... #lexiconvalley #onlanguage #podcast #maverick

283: Gobbledygook Explained Gobbledygook sounds like one of those words that somebody just made up — so is it? 🎧 Listen: lexiconvalley.supportingcast.fm/listen/lexic... #lexiconvalley #gobbledygook #gobble #onlanguage #podcast

Bonus: The Fuss Over Nonplussed Are you nonplussed over the misuse of nonplussed? You're not the only one. 🔑 Unlock bonus episodes to listen: lexiconvalley.supportingcast.fm/listen/lexic... #lexiconvalley #onlanguage #podcast #nonplussed

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Apparently I may be somewhat responsible for coining cringe comedy? Sorry and you’re welcome

Bonus: Laugh Till You Cringe When did we start calling it cringe comedy? Featuring the great tv critic Joy Press (@joypress.bsky.social)! 🔑 Unlock bonus episodes to listen: lexiconvalley.supportingcast.fm/listen/lexic... #lexiconvalley #onlanguage #podcast #cringecomedy

282: Gen Alpha Thinks You're Cringe Our parents were cringe-inducing, but we're just cringe. 🎧 Listen: lexiconvalley.supportingcast.fm/listen/lexic... #lexiconvalley #cringe #podcast #onlanguage

Bonus: Ghost Town On the rise of ghosting: to haunt, to leave and to ignore. 🔑 Unlock bonus episodes to listen: lexiconvalley.supportingcast.fm/listen/lexic... #lexiconvalley #onlanguage #podcast #ghost

Bonus: Grate Beyond First we shredded ginger root and stale bread and then a harsh sound landed on the ear. When did we start grating on each other's nerves? 🔑 Unlock bonus episodes to listen: lexiconvalley.supportingcast.fm/listen/lexic... #lexiconvalley #onlanguage #podcast

281: The Amazing Great Good is no longer good enough. 🎧 Listen: lexiconvalley.supportingcast.fm/listen/lexic... #lexiconvalley #great #onlanguage #podcast

As a follower of Lexicon Valley from its inception, I'm very happy to hear that we're going to be getting new episodes from both Bob+Mike and from John going forward.

Bonus: Is Unique Still One of a Kind? John McWhorter on the evolution of the word “unique” — from unparalleled to unusual. 🔑 Unlock bonus episodes to listen: lexiconvalley.supportingcast.fm/listen/lexic... #lexiconvalley #onlanguage #unique #podcast

Bonus: In a Hot Minute John McWhorter takes the linguistic topic of 280: It’s Been a Minute to an unexpectedly bawdy place. 🔑 Unlock bonus episodes to listen: lexiconvalley.supportingcast.fm/listen/lexic... #lexiconvalley #onlanguage #podcast

280: It’s Been a Minute Returning as the primary hosts of Lexicon Valley, Mike Vuolo and Bob Garfield speak to John McWhorter about understatement and hyperbole in Black English. 🎧Listen: lexiconvalley.supportingcast.fm/listen/lexic... #lexiconvalley #itsbeenaminute #onlanguage #podcast