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Number Theory

Episode 46

How many blackbirds were baked in that pie?

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11 years, 5 months ago

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Number Theory

Episode 46

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo ask the question: How did we go from "four and twenty" to "twenty four"?

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11 years, 5 months ago

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LinguaFile IV | Snark

Episode 45

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss a mystery word or phrase with lexicographer Ben Zimmer.

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11 years, 5 months ago

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LinguaFile IV | Snark

Episode 45

On the etymology of a sarcastic word, featuring lexicographer Ben Zimmer.

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11 years, 5 months ago

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Man on the Street

Episode 44

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo talk to Jonathon Green, author of "The Vulgar Tongue" and "Green's Dictionary of Slang"-- a 6,000-page, three-volume refe…

11 years, 6 months ago

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Man on the Street

Episode 44

Jonathon Green's decades-long quest to document slang throughout the English-speaking world.

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11 years, 6 months ago

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LinguaFile III | Orange

Episode 43

On the etymology of a well-traveled and colorful word, featuring lexicographer Ben Zimmer.

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11 years, 6 months ago

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LinguaFile III | Orange

Episode 43

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss a mystery word or phrase with lexicographer Ben Zimmer.

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11 years, 6 months ago

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Demonstratively Speaking

Episode 42

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss Sarah Palin's use of demonstrative pronouns.

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11 years, 7 months ago

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Demonstratively Speaking

Episode 42

On the rhetorical effect of this, that, these and those.

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11 years, 7 months ago

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