Some families have their own idiosyncratic rules for Scrabble. Grant talks about the rules in his house. This is part of a complete episode.
A listener in Buford, Georgia, says his mother’s maiden name was Barnett, and reports that he was told that the addition of an “e” to a last name was once an indication that the person was descended from slave families. This is...
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...
forgainst other.— «Republicans need to answer to the families of the people serving in Iraq. The time for hedging is over. You can’t be what I call “forgainst it.”» —“N.H. Reps. Call on Senators to Help Change Course in...
foodshed n.— «According to a study undertaken in the Recife foodshed area…,the lower 58 percent of families spent approximately 70 percent of their income on food.» —“Bodo Was Never Brazilian: Economic Integration and Rural...
trailing spouse n.— «Another personnel man remembers the promising executive he lost because her husband was a dentist who couldn’t find a good practice to join in the area. To cope with this problem, some 150 northern New Jersey...