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Welcome back, Valerie, to the podcast.

I'm so excited for all of you out there listening to hear from Valerie again.

She has been on the podcast, but it's been a minute, right?

Absolutely.

It's funny how we say it's been a minute when we actually mean it's been a long time.

Exactly right.

But I'm going to briefly introduce Valerie again for those of you who don't remember her episode.

She is the author of Like Literally Dude, Arguing for the Good in Bad English, which is what she talked about last time she was here.

Sometimes those fillers like are necessary and we shouldn't be so prejudiced against them.

But she's also a professor of linguistics in the English department at the University of Nevada, Reno.

She writes a popular language blog on Psychology Today called Language in the Wild and is a professor in the Great Courses series.

Welcome back, Valerie.

And you have a new book that I'm very excited for you to talk about because it really is right up our alley.