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A feed from the Slate podcast network featuring episodes with enlightening conversations, opposing views, and plenty of healthy disputes. You'll get a curated selection of episodes from programs like What Next, The Waves, and the Political Gabfest, with deep discussions that go beyond point-counterpoint and shed light on the issues that matter most.

Whither Didst Thou Go?

36 mins; November 01, 2016

Why Do People Talk Like That in Old Movies?

34 mins; October 18, 2016

Billy and Me Went to the Store. Deal With It.

29 mins; October 04, 2016

What Is a Dictionary, Really?

26 mins; September 20, 2016

The Invisible Language of Nursery Rhymes

27 mins; September 06, 2016

Word Sex

39 mins; August 23, 2016

Should Shakespeare Get a Modern English Update?

48 mins; August 08, 2016

Are Emoji a Language?

42 mins; July 26, 2016

Finding Life in a Dead Language

29 mins; July 12, 2016

Rules Are Made to Be Spoken

33 mins; June 29, 2016

The Tragedy of English Spelling

29 mins; June 14, 2016

Your Brain on Profanity

34 mins; May 31, 2016

Rock, Paper, Scissors, Shoot!

28 mins; May 17, 2016

The Blaccent: What Does It Mean to Sound Black?

29 mins; May 03, 2016

A Wild Goose Chase that Stinks from Fish

24 mins; April 19, 2016

Defecation Presentation

29 mins; April 04, 2016

Take This Episode with a Grain of Salt

31 mins; March 08, 2016

The Full, Firm, Valiant, and Heavy-Hearted Trump

30 mins; February 22, 2016

A British Insult Fit for Trump

34 mins; February 08, 2016

They Had a Good Year

38 mins; January 27, 2016

The Curious Case of a Conspiratorial Coinage

38 mins; January 11, 2016

Tears of Joy, Identity, and a Prism of Isms

34 mins; December 28, 2015

Sleeping Hobos in a Tent, Rush 'Em!

32 mins; December 14, 2015

Snoozefest

31 mins; November 30, 2015

Woody Guthrie's Folk Etymology

30 mins; November 16, 2015

A Cat, a Coward, and Female Genitalia

34 mins; November 02, 2015

A Drone, a Bell, and a Suffix

31 mins; October 19, 2015

Seven Centuries of F--ks

34 mins; October 05, 2015

An Ambitious Enterprise, Quixotic and Unavailing

33 mins; September 21, 2015

How New York Became the Big Apple

24 mins; September 07, 2015

Why Do Latin Americans Call English Speakers Gringos?

35 mins; August 24, 2015

What Do You Mean What Is It Like?

31 mins; August 10, 2015

LinguaFile XIV | Heebie Jeebies

39 mins; July 27, 2015

What's the Deal with Translating Seinfeld?

43 mins; July 13, 2015

LinguaFile XIII | Bozo

26 mins; June 29, 2015

The Pollyanna Hypothesis

49 mins; June 17, 2015

LinguaFile XII | Kibitz

39 mins; June 01, 2015

M'athchomaroon, Zhey Lajak Vezhven!

43 mins; May 18, 2015

LinguaFile XI | Seersucker

35 mins; May 04, 2015

Double, Double, Toil and Trouble

40 mins; April 20, 2015

LinguaFile X | Pumpernickel

37 mins; April 05, 2015

And Infinitum

38 mins; March 22, 2015

LinguaFile IX | Carnival

29 mins; March 08, 2015

Sex Workers

35 mins; February 22, 2015

LinguaFile VIII | Quiz

26 mins; February 08, 2015

The Many Lives of Anna Karenina

39 mins; January 25, 2015

LinguaFile VII | Cockamamie

34 mins; January 11, 2015

Exposure to Vape Culture

51 mins; December 28, 2014

LinguaFile VI | Grog

27 mins; December 14, 2014

What Does It Mean to Sound Gay?

39 mins; November 30, 2014

LinguaFile V | Get One's Goat

35 mins; November 16, 2014

Number Theory

29 mins; November 02, 2014

LinguaFile IV | Snark

44 mins; October 19, 2014

Man on the Street

40 mins; October 05, 2014

LinguaFile III | Orange

31 mins; September 21, 2014

Demonstratively Speaking

32 mins; September 07, 2014

LinguaFile II | Lagniappe

26 mins; August 24, 2014

The Manic Pixie and the Magical Negro

32 mins; August 10, 2014

LinguaFile I | Discombobulate

20 mins; July 27, 2014

Lexicon Valley No. 38: Fisherman's Whorf

36 mins; July 13, 2014

Lexicon Valley No. 37: Legislating Language

34 mins; March 09, 2014

Lexicon Valley No. 36: The Dude Abides

38 mins; January 26, 2014

Lexicon Valley No. 35: Learning to Say No

27 mins; December 22, 2013

Lexicon Valley No. 34: Ask Not Who Wrote "Ask Not"

31 mins; December 15, 2013

Lexicon Valley No. 33: The End of Ambiguity

27 mins; December 08, 2013

Lexicon Valley: Special Announcement

3 mins; December 04, 2013

Lexicon Valley No. 32: The Burden of Being Right

37 mins; August 04, 2013

Lexicon Valley No. 31: Name That Tone

30 mins; July 14, 2013

Lexicon Valley No. 30: Eject at High Altitude

21 mins; June 30, 2013

Lexicon Valley #29: 30 Million By Four

31 mins; June 23, 2013

Lexicon Valley #28: A Brief History of Swearing

26 mins; June 16, 2013

Lexicon Valley #27: Accentuate the Positive

28 mins; June 09, 2013

Special Announcement

3 mins; June 01, 2013

Special Announcement

3 mins; February 13, 2013

Lexicon Valley #26: The Fawth Flaw, Part II

31 mins; January 27, 2013

Lexicon Valley #25: The Fawth Flaw

24 mins; January 13, 2013

Lexicon Valley #24: Get Your Creak On

28 mins; December 30, 2012

Lexicon Valley #23: Good Is Up

29 mins; December 16, 2012

Lexicon Valley #22: Talking Leaves and Lightning Paper

31 mins; December 02, 2012

Lexicon Valley #21: Undocumented Illegals

35 mins; November 11, 2012

Lexicon Valley #20: Death to Potatoes

34 mins; October 28, 2012

Lexicon Valley #19: Here's to You Mrs. Malaprop

33 mins; October 14, 2012

Lexicon Valley #18: The Rate of Exchange

27 mins; September 30, 2012

Lexicon Valley #17: Ascent of the A-word

27 mins; September 16, 2012

Special Announcement from Lexicon Valley

3 mins; July 18, 2012

Lexicon Valley #16: Our Dying Words

23 mins; July 08, 2012

Lexicon Valley #15: Then Is Now, Now and Then

32 mins; July 01, 2012

Lexicon Valley #14: By Their Words You Shall Know Them

32 mins; June 17, 2012

Lexicon Valley #13: Capturing the Past

40 mins; June 10, 2012

Lexicon Valley #12: The Eloquence of Plain English

32 mins; June 03, 2012

Lexicon Valley #11: When Being Done Replaced Doing

28 mins; May 27, 2012

Lexicon Valley #10: One Giant Leap for Humanity

39 mins; May 13, 2012

Lexicon Valley #9: And May He Be a Masculine Bridge

32 mins; May 06, 2012

Lexicon Valley #8: When Nouns Grew Genitals

30 mins; April 29, 2012

Lexicon Valley #7: A Needle Pulling Thread

30 mins; April 22, 2012

Special Announcement from Lexicon Valley

3 mins; April 04, 2012

Lexicon Valley #6: A Meditation on Scrabble

35 mins; March 11, 2012

Lexicon Valley #5: Untuning the String

37 mins; March 04, 2012

Lexicon Valley #4: Jumpin' Salty in The O

41 mins; February 26, 2012

Lexicon Valley #3: Consider the Lamppost

30 mins; February 19, 2012

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