Lexicon Valley #17: Ascent of the A-word
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4.6 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2012
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 1:02.0 | The following podcast contains profanity, obscenity, vulgarity and an explanation of the difference between them. |
| 1:09.0 | From Washington, D.C., this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language. |
| 1:20.0 | I'm Bob Garfield with Mike Volo. And today episode number 17 titled, |
| 1:25.0 | A Sent of the A Word, wherein we talk to linguist Jeffrey Nunberg about the entitled, |
| 1:31.0 | Untitled, Abtus and Omnipresent, Asshole. |
| 1:41.0 | Hey Mikey. Hey Bob, we're back. Here we are. |
| 1:45.0 | You know, I posted an announcement back in July saying that Lexicon Valley would return with new episodes in late summer. |
| 1:54.0 | And not too long ago, D.C. Moonraker wrote a review on iTunes, a five star review by the way, |
| 2:01.0 | with the title, Define Late Summer. |
| 2:08.0 | By my watch, there are about five days or so left in summer. |
| 2:14.0 | Oh, so we got in under the wire, did we? |
| 2:16.0 | Just under the wire. |
| 2:18.0 | All right, before we get to today's episode, a quick update on episode five of Lexicon Valley, |
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