A flight attendant from Concord, North Carolina, is irritated by a word she must use often in her work: deplane, meaning “to leave an aircraft.” She knows this verb is effective and efficient, but she says that to her it seems inelegant...
Wally’s keyboard riddle asks for the longest English word that can be typed using only the left hand on an English keyboard. A key clue: it’s the plural of an older occupational term for people on airplanes, the job title now generally replaced by...