In Scotland and parts of Northern England, dwadle means to “waste time,” “loiter,” or “linger.” This is part of a complete episode.
POSSLQ was devised by a worker at the U.S. Census Bureau as an acronym for Person of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters or Partner of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters. Pronounced “possle-cue,” this term caught on briefly in the...
A Kentuckian named Sheila moved out of state for several years, but now that she’s returned to work at Western Kentucky University, she finds that many students no longer seem to have a stereotypically “Southern” accent...
Hannah from Menominee, Wisconsin, says her father used to invite people to go for a drive with Let’s go for a scud. The verb to scud means “to move quickly,” or “to speed,” as in clouds scudding across the sky, and goes...
In Australia to chuck a sickie, means “to call in sick to work, especially when you’re not ill.” This is part of a complete episode.
How do you pronounce the word route? Does it rhyme with “boot” or “bout”? This is part of a complete episode.