When Mad Men, AMC's time warp to Madison Avenue of the 1960’s, returns Sunday night, Ben Zimmer, “On Language” columnist for the Sunday New York Times magazine will be watching... For mistakes! He looks at the etymology within the scripts to see which expressions belong to the 60’s and which ones were coined in other decades.
Audio Embed: BBC, PRI & WBUR's Here & Now 7/23/10, Host: Deborah Becker. |
Ben Zimmer's Linguistic Blooper Reel
YouTube Video
Christina Hendricks with Jimmy Fallon (7/22/10)
Video: NBC
Look for Fallon & Hendricks 8/29/10 on the Prime Time Emmys... He's hosting, she has one of 17 nominations Mad Men got this year.
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