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From Washington, D.C., this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language. I'm Mike Voolo, and today

we have something a little different. Bob Garfield and I were recently guests on The Gist with

Mike Peska. It's a long-running podcast about politics and culture and pretty much everything else. We were invited on to talk about,

among other things, the dictionary.com choice for Word of the Year, which is 6-7. That's an insanely

popular meme among teenagers in particular, but then it spread to their teachers and their parents,

and now everybody knows about it. But almost nobody knows the full story behind it or what it

even means. So here is the segment from the gist about six, seven. So my guess, do I even have to say more?

They are Mike Volo and Bob Garfield. They are the current and original hosts of Lexicon Valley.

In the meantime, there were some Interregna, John McWater, ably hosted, still a beloved

member of the Lexicon Valley family, but the originals have taken it back. John will contribute

on occasion. We've had John on the show. I can't believe that I've never had a man I consider

my mentor and a man I consider my Italian, Jewish, Pisan landsman,

Mike Folo and Bob Garfield. Welcome to The Gist. Well, thank you, Mike. So our listeners will

note that so far we've been communicating with words. And that's just one level of Lexicon Valley.

We also communicate about words.

And the word of the year, and there are a few iterations of the word of the year, the word of the year,

the word of the year was six, seven. And you haven't done it on the show yet if you're going to do it,

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