The Dating Game, Paranormal Edition

约会游戏,超自然版

Lexicon Valley from Booksmart Studios

2026-06-10

24 分钟
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Guess the chronological order of these early 20th-century words: paramilitary, paranormal and (drug-related) paraphernalia. Visit Lexicon Valley. A Booksmart Studios Production. Episode 301: "The Dating Game, Paranormal Edition." With Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo. Edited and produced by Mike Vuolo. Produced by Livia Bloom Ingram. All rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • From Booksmart Studios, this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language.

  • I'm Mike Volo with Bob Garfield, and today we're going to play The Dating Game again.

  • This time with the prefix para, P-A-R-A, which we talked about in our last episode.

  • For those of you who didn't catch The Dating Game the first time around, here's how it works.

  • I'll give you, Bob, three words this time, all starting with para, P-A-R-A.

  • For example, paramedic, but that's not one of them.

  • I'll give them to you in alphabetical order.

  • Your job is to arrange them chronologically from earliest to latest according

  • to when they first appear in the written record as far as we know.

  • Is paraplegic one of them?

  • No.

  • Is paraffin one of them?

  • Paraffin?