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How Hamilton Centers the Power and Pleasure of Language
Ben Zimmer
May 10, 2016
8:30 AM
Red Herring: A Wild Goose Chase That Stinks From Fish
Bob Garfield, Mike Vuolo, and Ben Zimmer
April 19, 2016
11:25 AM
Primeval Profanity
Ben Zimmer
March 30, 2016
12:25 PM
Take It With a Grain of Salt! But Why a Single Grain? And Why Salt?
Ben Zimmer, Mike Vuolo, and Bob Garfield
March 08, 2016
11:08 AM
The Trumpian Conditional
Ben Zimmer
Feb 22, 2016
1:14 PM
Studies in Sweary Syntax
Ben Zimmer
Feb 15, 2016
2:27 PM
The Origins of In Cahoots: Four Theories
Ben Zimmer, Mike Vuolo, and Bob Garfield
Jan 11, 2016
11:55 AM
Did Bob Dylan Pioneer the Phrase “Can’t Even” Back in 1966?
Ben Zimmer
Dec 29, 2015
4:08 PM
So You Just Got Eighty-Sixed From a Bar. Why That Number?
Bob Garfield, Mike Vuolo, and Ben Zimmer
Dec 14, 2015
9:23 AM
Woody Guthrie’s Folk Etymology. It’s a Hootenanny!
Ben Zimmer, Mike Vuolo, and Bob Garfield
Nov 16, 2015
12:05 PM
A Drone, a Bell, and a Suffix. It’s a Real Humdinger!
Ben Zimmer, Mike Vuolo, and Bob Garfield
Oct 19, 2015
10:47 AM
Yogi Berra Turned Linguistic Vice Into Virtue With His Cockeyed Tautologies
Ben Zimmer
Sept 23, 2015
6:17 PM
An Ambitious Enterprise, Quixotic and Unavailing
Ben Zimmer, Mike Vuolo, and Bob Garfield
Sept 21, 2015
9:46 AM
Assessing Jeb Bush’s Bilingualism
Ben Zimmer
Aug 05, 2015
2:46 PM
A Non-French Speaker Won the French Language Scrabble Championship. How Is That Possible?
Ben Zimmer
Aug 05, 2015
10:35 AM
Don't Be a Clown! Guess This Word With Vaudevillian Roots.
Ben Zimmer, Mike Vuolo, and Bob Garfield
June 29, 2015
2:52 PM
Did Bill Simmons Get Fired for “Testicular Fortitude”?
Ben Zimmer
May 11, 2015
10:16 AM
How Stuart Scott Made Booyah His Own
Ben Zimmer
Jan 05, 2015
12:41 PM
Can John Leguizamo Put a Pretty Face on Fugly?
Ben Zimmer
Nov 07, 2014
1:58 PM
Pangrammatic Tweets!
Ben Zimmer
June 06, 2014
11:46 AM
