The terms mickey mouse and to mickey mouse can be used as pejoratives. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Mickey Mouse as a Pejorative” Hi, you have A Way with Words. Hi, yes, how are you? My name is Timothy Wong, and hi...
Cindy from Descanso, California, heard fignature in New York for the wobbly signature made with a finger on a phone or card-reader screen. The blend of finger and signature has several spellings, including fingature and fingerature, plus the plainer...
Apple core, Baltimore! Who’s your friend? is a playground-style apple-core tossing chant, which Travis in Madison, Wisconsin, heard from his father well into adulthood. In one version, the apple eater calls out the rhyme, waits for someone to name a...
Listeners who grew up playing the children’s game Duck Duck Gray Duck insist that this Minnesota version of Duck Duck Goose is more complicated and therefore more fun. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Duck Duck Gray...
Why is it that what you say to your family and what they hear are different? If you say “no,” your child hears “maybe,” and if you say “maybe,” she hears “ask again and again,” and “yes” is...
Martha and Grant revisit the “apple core, Baltimore” game they discussed a few episodes ago. Many listeners learned it from this Donald Duck cartoon. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Apple Core, Baltimore...