About that inflationary language: Writing on our Facebook page, Jen Lynch inflated the word tuba, calling it a threeba. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Threebas” We were talking earlier about John Chaneski’s quiz, Just One More...
Our Quiz Guy Greg Pliska invites us to play Categorical Allies, a game of two-word pairs where the last two letters of the first word lend themselves to the start of the second, and both words fit into one category. For example, what word might...
What does it mean to have chops? In the 1500s, chops was a slang term for the face or lips, but it carried into African-American jazz culture to mean that a brass or wind player had good embouchure. The idea is reflected in the old jazz musician’s...