A Montreal, Canada, caller says that when he does something annoying, his wife will say simply, “Can you not?” He wonders if that construction is grammatically correct. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Can You Not?” Hello, you have...
Quiz Guy John Chaneski reprises his popular “Puzzle Hunt” game. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Radio Puzzle Hunt Game” You’re listening to A Way with Words. I’m Martha Barnette. And I’m Grant Barrett, and we’re joined once again...
cocktail sip n.— «Indeed, he made no mention of it at all. Thompson spoke at an annual social sponsored by the Friends of Barbados DLP Association, the party’s New York branch headed by Lennox Price. Held at Nazareth Hall High School in Brooklyn...
salmon-tot retriever n.— Note: The Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage defines this term as a “dog of no known pedigree.” «Very prevalent decades ago and commonly known as salmon-tot retrievers, these no-breed dogs used to roam every street...
marble cricket n.— «Sir Garry also informed a curious Bolden that he first started playing a form of the game, known to Barbadians as “marble cricket” where the batsman bent on one knee while batting when he was four or five years old and later...
duck’s guts
n.pl.— «Panic-stricken, I realised that I was (to use a good old Bajan expression) “in duck’s guts.”» —“Private Line—Language barrier” by Jeannette Layne-Clarke The Nation (Barbados) Nov. 25, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
