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EPISODE 4: Untuning the String
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EPISODE 4: Untuning the String

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo talk to author David Skinner about his book, The Story of Ain't.

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 revolution, America’s intellectual class was in an utter freakout over a dictionary. That’s right, the 1961 publication of Webster’s Third Edition incited otherwise sober-minded newspaper and magazine writers…

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