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Hello, I'm Nicole Holiday, a linguistics professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

And I'm Ben Zimmer, language columnist for the Wall Street Journal.

And this is Spectacular Renacular, a podcast where we not only explore language.

We also play with it.

This week our guest is Anne Friedman, the founder of Planet Word, a museum in Washington, D.C. devoted to words in language.

And later, we'll challenge a listener with some cinematic word play.

Well, we have to start off the episode with some bad news, I'm afraid.

Nicole and I have had a lot of fun since launching this podcast last year, bringing you all the latest in the world of language but unfortunately this

will be the final episode of Spectacular Vernacular that we're doing for

Slate. Yeah it's bittersweet because although we're sad about the end of the

podcast we've really

enjoyed this whole experience it's been such a blast and we've managed to

cover so many linguistic topics from serious ones to more light-hearted ones.

It's been great exploring so many different language subjects, you know, just looking back on what we've covered. I mean, we've talked about everything from the subtitles on Squid Game to Dr. Fauchy's Brooklyn accent to the voices of Siri to the

linguistic quandaries of Taylor Swift lyrics. And of course as we've said every

week we not only explore language we also play with it so we've had a lot of fun bringing on listeners and other guests to face word play challenges and a special shout out to our fellow slate podcasters for being such good sports and coming on for our word play quizzes.

Yeah, you know, while we're doing shoutouts, we also want to thank the whole slate podcast team,

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