On "yuppies": Here's a little more backstory on this word. It's not surprising that it would surface in 1980 in Chicago, but since Dan Rottenberg, the...

I'm with you, Glenn. Nice try, stevenz, A for effort; but I would not say "an historian" if the historian in question were an homunculus hooting on an...

DougRayPhillips said I was wondering if anyone whose Spanish is better/quicker than mine can repeat on here (in Spanish) the Mexican idiom that was t...

My wife grew up in northern Indiana in the 50s and 60s, and has cooked and discussed cooking in Georgia for almost 35 years. In the course of her life...

Thanks for that clarification about Google, deaconB. Still a mystery to me what's going on there.

Thanks, Heimhenge. I appreciate the effort. Perhaps someone familiar with current U.K. usage (whether in science or on television) will chime in. I...

Regarding the original question on the show (which I just heard on the podcast), it's kind of the inverse of a remark a linguistics professor made in ...

mlliu2006, "abroad" has to do with broadness, breadth, that is, width: the first definition for it in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary is "over a wide ...

I've never heard the expression "dippy egg," but I can guess why it's called that. I grew up in northern Indiana among rural Mennonites, and have live...