When putting together a jigsaw puzzle, do you call it making a puzzle or doing a puzzle? Listeners shared lots of different opinions on the A Way with Words Facebook group. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Make vs. Do a Puzzle”
Imagine you’re sitting at a table and you empty out all the pieces from a jigsaw puzzle box.
And then you spread them across the table.
And then your friends come in and you invite them to join you in assembling those pieces.
What do you say?
Katie asked us that on our Facebook page recently.
And Grant, remember, there were so many different answers.
It was crazy.
Well, most people said I’m puzzling or putting together a puzzle, right?
Well, she said I’m going to make a puzzle.
But other people were talking about doing a puzzle or is doing a puzzle more like a crossword puzzle.
That was one of the longest discussions we’ve had on the Facebook page.
Put together a puzzle, right?
Yeah.
What do you say?
Put together a puzzle.
Put together a puzzle.
We did a lenticular puzzle in my house the other day.
This is the one where you shift the image and it’s two different pictures in one.
If you run your fingernails across the surface, it goes like that.
Oh, yeah.
Very difficult.
That is fascinating.
Yeah.
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