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From Washington, D.C., this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language.

I'm Bob Garfield with Mike Volo, and today, episode number 69, a new installment of linguophile,

wherein we discuss a mystery word or phrase with lexicographer Ben Zimmer.

Hey, Mikey. Hey, Mikey.

Hey, Bobby.

How you doing, buddy?

Splendid, thank you in your own self.

I'm great.

I'm great.

Ben, you're on the line from New York.

Yes, hello.

I'm great.

Good to be back with both of you.

What is our clue this week?

Well, our clue for this week's word involves a spoonerism.

You guys know what a spoonerism is, right? A well-boiled icicle? A well-boiled icicle, exactly. So you switch those

initial consonants or constant clusters, and so coming up with something silly. So, right,

Bob Garfield would become Gob Barfield if you spoonerized him. I actually, I was recently

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