Do you know where your participle is dangling? Martha and Grant salute National Grammar Day. Also, when you’re scribbling on a piece of paper, do you find yourself expecting spellcheck to kick in and underline your misspellings with squiggly...
This week’s Slang This! contestant tries to guess the meaning of the slang terms “goat’s mouth” and “happy sack.” This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Goat’s Mouth and Happy Sack”...
Greetings, oh wordy ones! We're on vacation, so this past weekend's broadcast was a repeat--uh, "encore presentation"--that originally aired December 2nd and 3rd. It's the one in which we geek-out over...
zofamily n.— «Happy crawling all you Zofamilies!!! DID YOU KNOW????: That “Zofamily”—Pronounced like “So Family,” is the term used for: “Any family that considers their pets an actual member of the family...
happy hello n.— «A new phrase is doing the rounds in the recruitment industry—the happy hello. The phrase has been coined for the joining bonuses that companies are offering to coax the best employees into their fold. Such incentives are...
happy-clappy adj.— «You don’t have to be a happy-clappy Silicon Valley hippie to see that computer-driven virtual reality is set to upstage Euro Disney before the millennium. » —“In This Sterile Diorama, Life Is but a...