Bread Machine?

You’re listening to A Way with Words, the show about language and how we use it.

My name is Grant Barrett.

And my name is Martha Barnette.

And we heard from Jane McDonald, who lives in Reno, Nevada.

Jane is a big crossword puzzle enthusiast, and she shared her favorite crossword clue of all time.

Grant, I know you want to hear this.

Oh, yes, please.

Okay.

The clue is bread machine, and the answer has three letters.

Bread machine.

Pan? Because that means bread.

Oh, that’s very good, right?

Bread in Latin and other romance languages.

No, right? That’s not it.

No, it’s not pan.

I could drag this out for hours. I don’t know.

Tell me what it is. So bread machine?

What’s the answer?

The three-letter answer is ATM.

Oh, because that’s when you get your bread.

But you also get your dough there.

Well, that’s true.

It could be a dough machine.

Oh, that’s nice.

Crosshair people are so clever, right?

They are.

And if you meet them, they have the driest humor.

They will just drop these little jokes and walk away, and it’ll take you a second.

And you want to chase after them and go, you are the funniest person.

Yeah, I think it was that brilliant constructor, Merle Regal,

Who was talking to somebody as they went past Dunkin’ Donuts.

And he said, you know, you can just move the D from Dunkin’ to the end of the word,

And then you have unkind donuts.

Well, we’d love to be kind to you.

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