When a backpacking waist belt gave Chris from San Diego what he called a Murphy, his friends knew it as a wedgie. Murphy isn’t his invention. The slang term turns up in slang dictionaries and probably dates at least to the 1980s, perhaps the 1970s...
Many of us learned the rule about using the preposition between when talking about two items, but among when talking about more than two. In reality, though, the rule is a little more complicated. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of...

