Interview on WNYC’s “The Brian Lehrer Show” about “deploying the slide” and other expressions relating to JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater. (Aug. 13, 2010)
(Interview starts about 9 minutes into the audio clip.)
Ben Zimmer, “On Language” columnist for the New York Times, discusses the various phrases that have come into the lexicon as a result of flight attendant Steven Slater’s quitting-by-emergency-slide.
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