What do you call a long sandwich filled with lots of ingredients? Whether you call it a sub, a hoagie, a grinder, or something else entirely depends on where you’re from. And: Martha’s visit to an Alaskan reindeer ranch reveals why you really do...
Our groovy Quiz Guy John Chaneski has a quiz about the language of the 1960’s, updated for the Me Generation. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Word Quiz: Not Me, But We” You’re listening to A Way with Words, the show about language...
Our Quiz Guy Greg Pliska feeds us a game of spoonerisms, or rhyming phrase pairs where the first sounds are swapped. For example, what do a stream of information in 140 characters and a better-tailored suit have in common? Or how about a Michael...
Our Quiz Guy Greg Pliska takes a break from his music career to bring us a game called Initia-rithmetic. For example, if he says there are 4 P’s depicted on M.R., what do those initials stand for? The answer to that one is, you might say, monumental...
Quiz Master John Chaneski has a game about professions that match their respective verbs. What, for example, does a tutor do? This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Professions as Verbs Quiz” You’re listening to A Way with Words. I’m...