Ben Zimmer on "Locavore"

The Leonard Lopate Show | Oct 9, 2012

Ben Zimmer, language columnist for the Boston Globe and executive producer of the Visual Thesaurus and Vocabulary.com, talks about the origin of the words "locavore" and "vegetarian" and the many variations that have been developed, such as "pescatarians" and "flexitarians."

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