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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 vernacular, a podcast where we not only explore language.

We also play with it.

This week our special guest is Michael Adams of Indiana University Bloomington.

We'll be talking about the amazing collection of dictionaries that belong to the late Madeline Crypt Keep, the so-called Dame of Dictionaries.

And later on we'll be joined by Stefan Fatzis, co-host of the Slate Sports Podcast, Hang Up and Listen.

We'll be challenging Stefan with a word play quiz that combines his love of sports and dictionaries.

So Ben, I hear you're a big fan of one Ms. Taylor Swift, who's recently been back in the headlines for re-recording all of her albums after her label wouldn't let her have the masters.

I guess you wouldn't call me a Swiftie exactly, but I do have a deep appreciation, I think, of Taylor's uvra.

So, yeah, you know, I recently stumbled upon a piece by Olivia Craighead over at Gawker, and it had this headline.

It said, Taylor Swift is lying about all too well, 10-minute version, Taylor's version.

But Taylor wouldn't lie to us like that.

I know, it's kind of a bold accusation.

But this Gawker piece questions Taylor's claim that the original version of her song All Too Well was always 10-minute long as opposed to the 5-minute version that appeared on her album Red.

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