Patricia in Crescent City, California, grew up hearing fussbudget, so fussbucket for a teething child sounded both wrong but oddly sensible. Fussbudget, meaning someone ill-tempered, overly critical, or full of fuss, goes back at least to 1870. The...
The guy who may be the nation’s foremost garage sale expert called us from Crescent City, California, with a question that’s vital for anyone writing or thinking about garage sales: Do the verbs garage-saling or yard-saling refer to the...
What’s a round-heeled woman? This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Round-Heeled Woman” Hi, you have A Way with Words. Hello, hi. Hi, who’s this? This is Everett Allen. Where are you calling from, Everett...
