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Summary: <p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The Jefferson Exchange: February 14, 2014 Hour 2:</p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong style="">Rebroadcast: Ascent of the A-Word</strong></p><p class="MsoNormal">Listen to how careful we can be NOT saying an objectionable-but common-word on the radio. Why? Because Geoffrey Nunberg wrote a whole book on the word, its uses and its connotations. And he called it…ASCENT OF THE A-WORD. It’s a look at the word and the behavior we’ll call “A-hole-ism”.</p>