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From New York City, this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language, I'm John McWhorter,

and we're going to start here in 1951 with Phil Silvers and Rose Marie in top banana words in

music by Mr. John Immersor. Yeah, we're going to kick right in with the broadway to illustrate

something. Evie, you are one of the people listening who knows that my wife and I have performed

this number in a certain public venue. Here it goes, a word a day. Did you have a

hear of the readers digest? Oh, sure. They got a nautical and they're called a word a day.

Learn those words. You're smart as anybody else. That's fine, but you have to know the meaning of

the words. I know the meaning of the words. You do. All right, rise, guy. Here's the dictionary.

Try me. All right. As Sidious. As Sidious. Vems the things that live on sea or on land.

And Thibius. I'm Phibius. That means someone who can use either hand to simulate,

to simulate, take a benzidrine and have a few yaks. As scotchians. A department store like Saxx.

Appreciate. Appreciate. That's like last year what you lost on your car.

Posterity. Posterity. What you sit on. We're for you all.

Caricature. Caricature. Hey, caricature in China's a cap.

To disappear. When the waiter brings the tail. A word a day. A word a day. Like resume.

But you see, you could learn a word a day for decades and you'd be watching four-year-olds

out talk you in their sleep because languages partly about words. But as I always say,

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