Karen in Charlotte, North Carolina, adores her son’s cleft chin. Her husband, who also has one, calls it a butt chin. Karen prefers chimple, a combination of chin and dimple. Did she coin it? This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of...
Sue from Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, wants help regarding a dispute with her husband about terms they use in a pickup sport like softball and you don’t have enough players to field a full-size team. If you get onto second base but then have to...
Jim in Sacramento, California, was reading The Good Detective (Bookshop|Amazon) by John McMahon, when he came across a description of the Georgia countryside as flatter than a gander’s arch. Just how flat was it, and what’s a...
Laura in Tucson grew up hearing her West Virginia grandmother use tight as a tick for a room packed with people, and wondered whether it referred to a blood-swollen tick or the tick of a clock. It’s the blood-fed tick, whose body can become taut and...
If you’re talking about plans to make contact with someone, do you say you’re going to touch base or touch bases with them? This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Touch Base vs. Touch Bases” Hello, you have A Way...
A Delaware listener wonders about her grandparents’ use of the phrase I beg your pardon, which sounds a bit old-fashioned to her and her peers. Her grandparents were prim and proper, and used this expression whenever they felt slighted or...