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From New York City, this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language.

I'm John McWhorter.

I teach linguistics at Columbia University.

My latest books are words on the move and talking back, talking black.

But today, I'm in mind of something that happened last night.

I have been watching the old Batman TV show

with my five-year-old daughter.

She gets a kick out of it

because it's basically a cartoon.

And as many of you know,

in most of the episodes,

there's some big fight.

Surrender that gigantic pie.

Where they have the comic book panel

pals and bangs popping up on the screen.

And in the one we saw last night, one of those Bam Pal panels was Baf.

And so, I was reading off the panels to her because she still reads slowly, pal, bam.

And I said, baff.

And she said, now, baff isn't really a word.

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