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LV: Remastered

Do you pine for the past? Before John, before even Booksmart, there was Mike and Bob. Now, for subscribers only, embrace the nostalgia of the very first episodes of Lexicon Valley — remastered for your aural enjoyment.
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Happy Days Are Here
Listen now | Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss what it means to be happy, both lexicographically and philosophically.
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Michael Vuolo
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Bob Garfield
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EPISODE 10: When Being Done Replaced Doing
Listen now | Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the most significant change to the English language that you've never heard of.
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Bob Garfield
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Michael Vuolo
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EPISODE 9: One Giant Leap for Humanity
Listen now | Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the he said/she said of the epicene pronoun.
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Bob Garfield
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Michael Vuolo
EPISODE 8: And May He Be a Masculine Bridge
Listen now | Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss how a simple quirk of grammar may affect the way we think.
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Michael Vuolo
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Bob Garfield
EPISODE 7: When Nouns Grew Genitals
Listen now | Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss what it means for language to have gender.
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Michael Vuolo
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Bob Garfield
EPISODE 6: A Needle Pulling Thread
Listen now | Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the big ambitions of the little word "so."
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Michael Vuolo
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Bob Garfield
EPISODE 5: A Meditation on Scrabble
Listen now | Mike Vuolo talks to Word Freak author Stefan Fatsis about the nature of language in Scrabble.
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Michael Vuolo
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Bob Garfield
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