Aloha! We have another A Way with Words podcast goofy-footing among the grommets. Martha's been putting together a collection of your favorite collective nouns and Grant joins her to swat around a caller’s question about what to call a...
high-touch adj.— «Will banks need to be high-tech to succeed? There’s always going to be what I call the high-touch bank. There’s always going to be the high-tech bank, and banks in between.» —“Banking on technology” by...
cherries and blueberries n.pl.— «“What is cherries and blueberries?” “it refers to the red and blue lights (cherries=red, blueberries=blue).”» —“Slang name you can’t stand?” by bdunndchi in...
box office n.— «Flew with someone the other day and she referred to it as a box office.» —“the word ‘flight deck’ vs. ‘cockpit’” by Capt. Paul Skinback in United Kingdom PPRuNe Forums (Unite) Sept. 26...
shoefiti n.— « Shoefiti…Beginning last fall, I started sending “Street Light Outage” reports to Xcel whenever I spotted a pair of shoes on lines in our fair city. » —“Shoefiti” by Ed Kohler in...
woolly booger n.— «A forum…gave spectators ample opportunity to observe first-hand the delicate and demanding skills required to create a bit of hook and fluff realistic enough to fool a wild trout.…Juniors worked on the...