Summary: <p>Jefferson Exchange — September 6, 2012, HOUR 2</p><p><b> <span class="headlinetext">Ascent of the A-Word</span> </b><br><br> This is a challenge: seeing if we can discuss an inflammatory word on the air without actually mentioning the word. Linguist and "Fresh Air" contributor Geoffrey Nunberg drills into our frequent use of a popular epithet in his book <a href="http://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/publicaffairsbooks-cgi-bin/display?book=9781610391757" target="_blank"><strong>"Ascent of the A-Word: A**holism, The First Sixty Years."</strong></a></p>
