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Recastable Episodes (324)

1. Lexicon Valley #1: A Sin of Which None Is Guilty Feb. 6, 2012
2. Lexicon Valley #2: A Bundle of Faggots Feb. 13, 2012
3. Lexicon Valley #3: Consider the Lamppost Feb. 20, 2012
4. Lexicon Valley #4: Jumpin' Salty in The O Feb. 27, 2012
5. Lexicon Valley #5: Untuning the String March 5, 2012
6. Lexicon Valley #6: A Meditation on Scrabble March 12, 2012
7. Special Announcement from Lexicon Valley April 4, 2012
8. Lexicon Valley #7: A Needle Pulling Thread April 23, 2012
9. Lexicon Valley #8: When Nouns Grew Genitals April 30, 2012
10. Lexicon Valley #9: And May He Be a Masculine Bridge May 7, 2012
11. Lexicon Valley #10: One Giant Leap for Humanity May 14, 2012
12. Lexicon Valley #11: When Being Done Replaced Doing May 27, 2012
13. Lexicon Valley #12: The Eloquence of Plain English June 4, 2012
14. Lexicon Valley #13: Capturing the Past June 11, 2012
15. Lexicon Valley #14: By Their Words You Shall Know Them June 18, 2012
16. Lexicon Valley #15: Then Is Now, Now and Then July 2, 2012
17. Lexicon Valley #16: Our Dying Words July 9, 2012
18. Special Announcement from Lexicon Valley July 18, 2012
19. Lexicon Valley #17: Ascent of the A-word Sept. 17, 2012
20. Lexicon Valley #18: The Rate of Exchange Oct. 1, 2012
21. Lexicon Valley #19: Here's to You Mrs. Malaprop Oct. 15, 2012
22. Lexicon Valley #20: Death to Potatoes Oct. 29, 2012
23. Lexicon Valley #21: Undocumented Illegals Nov. 12, 2012
24. Lexicon Valley #22: Talking Leaves and Lightning Paper Dec. 3, 2012
25. Lexicon Valley #23: Good Is Up Dec. 17, 2012
26. Lexicon Valley #24: Get Your Creak On Dec. 31, 2012
27. Lexicon Valley #25: The Fawth Flaw Jan. 14, 2013
28. Lexicon Valley #26: The Fawth Flaw, Part II Jan. 28, 2013
29. Special Announcement Feb. 13, 2013
30. Special Announcement June 1, 2013
31. Lexicon Valley #27: Accentuate the Positive June 10, 2013
32. Lexicon Valley #28: A Brief History of Swearing June 17, 2013
33. Lexicon Valley #29: 30 Million By Four June 24, 2013
34. Lexicon Valley No. 30: Eject at High Altitude July 1, 2013
35. Lexicon Valley No. 31: Name That Tone July 15, 2013
36. Lexicon Valley No. 32: The Burden of Being Right Aug. 5, 2013
37. Lexicon Valley: Special Announcement Dec. 4, 2013
38. Lexicon Valley No. 33: The End of Ambiguity Dec. 9, 2013
39. Lexicon Valley No. 34: Ask Not Who Wrote "Ask Not" Dec. 16, 2013
40. Lexicon Valley No. 35: Learning to Say No Dec. 23, 2013
41. Lexicon Valley No. 36: The Dude Abides Jan. 27, 2014
42. Lexicon Valley No. 37: Legislating Language March 10, 2014
43. Lexicon Valley No. 38: Fisherman's Whorf July 14, 2014
44. LinguaFile I | Discombobulate July 28, 2014
45. The Manic Pixie and the Magical Negro Aug. 11, 2014
46. LinguaFile II | Lagniappe Aug. 25, 2014
47. Demonstratively Speaking Sept. 8, 2014
48. LinguaFile III | Orange Sept. 22, 2014
49. Man on the Street Oct. 6, 2014
50. LinguaFile IV | Snark Oct. 20, 2014
51. Number Theory Nov. 3, 2014
52. LinguaFile V | Get One's Goat Nov. 17, 2014
53. What Does It Mean to Sound Gay? Dec. 1, 2014
54. LinguaFile VI | Grog Dec. 15, 2014
55. Exposure to Vape Culture Dec. 29, 2014
56. LinguaFile VII | Cockamamie Jan. 12, 2015
57. The Many Lives of Anna Karenina Jan. 26, 2015
58. LinguaFile VIII | Quiz Feb. 9, 2015
59. Sex Workers Feb. 23, 2015
60. LinguaFile IX | Carnival March 9, 2015
61. And Infinitum March 23, 2015
62. LinguaFile X | Pumpernickel April 6, 2015
63. Double, Double, Toil and Trouble April 20, 2015
64. LinguaFile XI | Seersucker May 4, 2015
65. M'athchomaroon, Zhey Lajak Vezhven! May 18, 2015
66. LinguaFile XII | Kibitz June 1, 2015
67. The Pollyanna Hypothesis June 17, 2015
68. LinguaFile XIII | Bozo June 29, 2015
69. What's the Deal with Translating Seinfeld? July 13, 2015
70. LinguaFile XIV | Heebie Jeebies July 27, 2015
71. What Do You Mean What Is It Like? Aug. 10, 2015
72. Why Do Latin Americans Call English Speakers Gringos? Aug. 24, 2015
73. How New York Became the Big Apple Sept. 7, 2015
74. An Ambitious Enterprise, Quixotic and Unavailing Sept. 21, 2015
75. Seven Centuries of F--ks Oct. 5, 2015
76. A Drone, a Bell, and a Suffix Oct. 19, 2015
77. A Cat, a Coward, and Female Genitalia Nov. 2, 2015
78. Woody Guthrie's Folk Etymology Nov. 16, 2015
79. Snoozefest Nov. 30, 2015
80. Sleeping Hobos in a Tent, Rush 'Em! Dec. 14, 2015
81. Tears of Joy, Identity, and a Prism of Isms Dec. 28, 2015
82. The Curious Case of a Conspiratorial Coinage Jan. 11, 2016
83. They Had a Good Year Jan. 27, 2016
84. A British Insult Fit for Trump Feb. 8, 2016
85. The Full, Firm, Valiant, and Heavy-Hearted Trump Feb. 22, 2016
86. Take This Episode with a Grain of Salt March 8, 2016
87. Defecation Presentation April 4, 2016
88. A Wild Goose Chase that Stinks from Fish April 19, 2016
89. The Blaccent: What Does It Mean to Sound Black? May 3, 2016
90. Rock, Paper, Scissors, Shoot! May 17, 2016
91. Your Brain on Profanity May 31, 2016
92. The Tragedy of English Spelling June 14, 2016
93. Rules Are Made to Be Spoken June 29, 2016
94. Finding Life in a Dead Language July 12, 2016
95. Are Emoji a Language? July 26, 2016
96. Should Shakespeare Get a Modern English Update? Aug. 8, 2016
97. Word Sex Aug. 23, 2016
98. The Invisible Language of Nursery Rhymes Sept. 6, 2016
99. What Is a Dictionary, Really? Sept. 20, 2016
100. Billy and Me Went to the Store. Deal With It. Oct. 4, 2016
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