Grant and Martha discuss strange names for high school sports teams. Know another example? Talk about it in the forum. This is part of a complete episode.
There’s a new Facebook group called People for a Library-Themed Ben & Jerry’s Flavor. They say that libraries are awesome, B&J ice cream is tasty, so why not combine the two and convince Ben & Jerry’s to produce a new...
porn slapper n.— «Porn slappers hand out little booklets offering services for ladies of the “evening.” Or was it the ladies of the afternoon, or morning? Anyways they are promoting prositution.» —“Las Vegas forum: OK...
This week’s language headlines include the publication of new slang dictionary, and an entire book devoted to that tiny piece of punctuation, the period, and a tip-off about audio recordings of famous authors whose voices would otherwise be...
Google slap n.— «When your ranking drops, 90% of the time it’s because of a SE changing it’s methodolgy for ranking sites. They are doing this because they believe it is in the best interests of their users. Some people refer to this as...
Welcome to another newsletter from A Way with Words, public radio's lively language show! Next week's show will be brand new, but this past weekend's show was a juicy repeat in which we talked about the demise of the typewriter, surfing...