Our conversation about slang terms for traveling by foot prompted an email from Tom in Canton, Texas, who reports that while living in Israel, he used to hear fellow high school students say in Arabic that they were taking bus number 11, the long, straight numerals representing their two legs. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Bus Number 11”
We are still hearing from listeners who are talking about different ways to talk about walking,
like going somewhere on Pat and Charlie, meaning your legs.
We heard from Tom Moore in Canton, Texas, who said,
“When I was in Israel, the Arab high school students would say they were taking bus number 11,
the one representing your legs.”
Oh, nice.
Isn’t that great?
That’s number 11.
Yeah, taking the number 11 bus to get there.
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