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From Washington, DC this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language. I'm Bob Garfield with

Mike Volow and today episode number 59, a new installment of Lingua file wherein we discuss

a mystery word of phrase with Lexicographer Ben Zimmer.

Hey, fellas. Hey, boys. How you doing? I'm doing fine over here. Splendid. Thank you. What do we

have today? Well, it's up to Ben, huh? Ben, what do you have for us? It is indeed. Okay, I got a new

word for you. It's a good one. Yeah. You know, it's boring if I just give you an actual definition of

this word. That would be no fun at all. So I'm going to give you a fake definition. Yeah, like the

dictionary game, Balder Dash or Ben, like the PBS weekly evening quiz show, know it all that I

produced and I failed to get on television about 20 years ago. Okay, good. That's a shame. I would

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