Lexicon Valley
@lexiconvalley.bsky.social
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A podcast about language.
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. π§Listen:
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#lexiconvalley
#podcast
#onlanguage
#gist
@milkepescs.bsky.social
6 days ago
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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? π Unlock bonus episodes to listen:
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#podcast
#derekguy
#onlanguage
#blazer
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13 days ago
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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
. π§Listen:
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#lexiconvalley
#podcast
#onlanguage
#derekguy
#dieworkwearg
20 days ago
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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? (Itβs not Lovro and Oskar.) π Unlock bonus episodes to listen:
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#podcast
27 days ago
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287: McWhorter vs. McWhorter The world was shocked by a controversial article published by "John McWhorter." Here, he sets the record straight. π§ Listen:
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#onlanguage
#podcast
#johnmcwhorter
about 1 month ago
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Lexicon Valley
about 1 month ago
Thanks for another very entertaining and informative episode. Ad salute tuam bibo.
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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. π§ Listen:
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#lexiconvalley
#toast
#nye
#happynewyear
#happy2026
#podcast
about 1 month ago
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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. π§ Listen:
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#oed
#woty
#ragebait
#aura
#aurafarming
#biohack
#onlanguage
#podcast
about 2 months ago
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Bonus: From Onism to Perdickety John Koenig weighs in on a few of Mike Vuolo's obscure sorrows β what are yours? π Unlock bonus episodes to listen:
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#onlanguage
#podcast
#onism
#perdickety
#neologism
#obscuresorrows
about 2 months ago
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284: The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows Author John Koenig talks about inventing words for those subtle emotions that hitherto had no name. π§ Listen:
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#anemoia
#obscuresorrows
#dictionaryofobscuresorrows
#onlanguage
#podcast
2 months ago
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6 7: Everything You Don't Know About the Word of the Year Mike Vuolo and Bob Garfield join and The Gistβs Mike Pesca
@milkepescs.bsky.social
to talk #67 βfrom rapper Skrilla to the basketball court to
#wordoftheyear
. π§ Listen:
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#podcast
#lexiconvalley
2 months ago
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Bonus: The Original Maverick The story of the word maverick has many versions. This one is true. π Unlock bonus episodes to listen:
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#onlanguage
#podcast
#maverick
3 months ago
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283: Gobbledygook Explained Gobbledygook sounds like one of those words that somebody just made up β so is it? π§ Listen:
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#gobbledygook
#gobble
#onlanguage
#podcast
3 months ago
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Bonus: The Fuss Over Nonplussed Are you nonplussed over the misuse of nonplussed? You're not the only one. π Unlock bonus episodes to listen:
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#onlanguage
#podcast
#nonplussed
3 months ago
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Lexicon Valley
3 months ago
The best and most entertaining language podcast.
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Joy Press
3 months ago
Apparently I may be somewhat responsible for coining cringe comedy? Sorry and youβre welcome
add a skeleton here at some point
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Bonus: Laugh Till You Cringe When did we start calling it cringe comedy? Featuring the great tv critic Joy Press (
@joypress.bsky.social
)! π Unlock bonus episodes to listen:
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#lexiconvalley
#onlanguage
#podcast
#cringecomedy
3 months ago
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282: Gen Alpha Thinks You're Cringe Our parents were cringe-inducing, but we're just cringe. π§ Listen:
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#cringe
#podcast
#onlanguage
3 months ago
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Bonus: Ghost Town On the rise of ghosting: to haunt, to leave and to ignore. π Unlock bonus episodes to listen:
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#onlanguage
#podcast
#ghost
4 months ago
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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? π Unlock bonus episodes to listen:
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#onlanguage
#podcast
4 months ago
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281: The Amazing Great Good is no longer good enough. π§ Listen:
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#lexiconvalley
#great
#onlanguage
#podcast
4 months ago
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reposted by
Lexicon Valley
5 months ago
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.
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Bonus: Is Unique Still One of a Kind? John McWhorter on the evolution of the word βuniqueβ β from unparalleled to unusual. π Unlock bonus episodes to listen:
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#onlanguage
#unique
#podcast
4 months ago
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Bonus: In a Hot Minute John McWhorter takes the linguistic topic of 280: Itβs Been a Minute to an unexpectedly bawdy place. π Unlock bonus episodes to listen:
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#onlanguage
#podcast
5 months ago
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280: Itβs 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. π§Listen:
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#lexiconvalley
#itsbeenaminute
#onlanguage
#podcast
5 months ago
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