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Back to SearchA Meditation on Scrabble
Episode 6
Does Scrabble in fact celebrate language? Or does it merely reduce English to a set of mathematical symbols and probability calculations? Mike Vuolo …
14 years ago
A Meditation on Scrabble
Episode 6
Mike Vuolo talks to "Word Freak" author Stefan Fatsis about the nature of language in Scrabble.
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14 years ago
Untuning the String
Episode 5
In the early 1960s, amid a nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union, a burgeoning civil rights movement here at home, and a dawning countercultural re…
14 years, 1 month ago
Untuning the String
Episode 5
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo talk to author David Skinner about his book, The Story of Ain't.
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14 years, 1 month ago
Jumpin' Salty in The O
Episode 4
Kathryn Stockett’s dialogue-heavy The Help, a novel that was adapted into an Oscar-winning movie, caused a stir over whether a white writer should de…
14 years, 1 month ago
Jumpin' Salty in The O
Episode 4
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the vernacular wrapped in a dialect inside a language that some call Ebonics.
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14 years, 1 month ago
Consider the Lamppost
Episode 3
Do you flinch when someone says “between you and I”? Textbook English tells us that it’s categorically ungrammatical, and yet it’s arguably more comm…
14 years, 1 month ago
Consider the Lamppost
Episode 3
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the hypercorrected incorrectness of "between you and I."
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14 years, 1 month ago
A Bundle of Faggots
Episode 2
On the history and future of the other F-word.
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14 years, 1 month ago
A Bundle of Faggots
Episode 2
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the evolution of the word "faggot."
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14 years, 1 month ago