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The following podcast contains explicit language.

From New York City, this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language, and this week we're

celebrating the Oxford English Dictionary.

Some of you may be familiar with that long, luscious, row, blue volume.

Some of you may have it.

Some of you may subscribe to it online, which is the way one properly possesses its richnesses

today.

And you should.

This isn't like the Encyclopedia Britannica, for example.

I bought a big clunking set of those things as soon as I had a real middle class income.

I puffed on my metaphorical pipe and put on my metaphorical slippers and I thought these

volumes are part of a proper home.

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