Courtney in Anchorage, Alaska, and her teenage son disagree: Should that collection of music be called a mixtape or a mixed tape? The former is far more common, and reflects that linguistic process known as lenition or “softening,” in...
Chris from Sebastian, Florida, learned the little-piggy toe-counting rhyme with corned beef and cabbage in the third line, while his wife heard roast beef. Most people remember the fourth little piggy eating roast beef, but food substitutions have...