The Brian Lehrer Show (WNYC), “Parsing the State of the Union”

January 28, 2011

Interview on WNYC’s “The Brian Lehrer Show” about the language of Obama’s State of the Union address (Jan. 28, 2011).

Ben Zimmer, “On Language” columnist for the New York Times and executive producer of Visual Thesaurus and Vocabulary.com, takes a closer look at some of the words and phrases that the president used in his State of the Union speech.

(Show page, streaming audio, download, related Word Routes column)

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