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From New York City, this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language.
And I'm John McWhorter.
Hey, folks, I am dropping in to do an occasional show.
And, you know, I imagine that.
We might think that I'm going to do something political,
that it 's going to be about some of the frankly terrible things that are happening as I record this.
But, you know, I don't want to do that because of all those terrible things.
I 'd like to just sit around with you all and have a little fun like I used to in the old days and share with you some things
that happen to have been on my mind.
And especially the major theme is just what a wonderful thing it is to see where words come from.
Talk about the media.
There's a fashion nowadays.
It gets more popular every year that you want to know where this year's expressions came from, and that's great.