Hi, I'm Bob Garfield.

Join me and co-host and producer Mike Volo for Lexicon Valley, a new series of podcasts about language here on Slate.

First up, we've all heard it's wrong to end a sentence with a preposition, but why?

Yeah, where did that rule come from?

And didn't I just violate it?

Mike, I guess you're supposed to say something like, from where did that rule come from? And didn't I just violate it? Mike, I guess you're supposed to say something like,

from where did that rule come?

But that sounds stupid.

I doubt how one playwright's superiority complex spawned the dubious preposition rule.

Lexicon Valley Mondays on the Slate Daily podcast.

Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for Friday, February 3rd, 2012, the rip-off

your pink ribbon gab fest, so dubbed by Emily Bazelon, Slate, Senior Editor,

who is joining us from New Haven.

Hi, Emily.

Hello.

I'm David Plotz, the editor of Slate.

I am here in Washington.

Thank goodness.

John Dickerson is back.

He's alive.

He looks as beautiful as ever. He's not wearing a tie, which he often wears, but he's not wearing a tie. He's back from the road.

John Dickerson Slate's chief political correspondent and political director for CBS News. Welcome, John. What did you learn from going to the country?

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