Did we stop referring to young urban professionals as yuppies? A listener in Madison, Wisconsin, says his younger co-workers told him they’d never heard of the word. The use of the word yuppie peaked around 1990, and has dramatically dropped...
Lily in Madison, Wisconsin, wonders about the use of the words vibe and vibing to mean “having a good time” with someone else. The sense of vibrations reflecting some kind of mystical connection goes centuries back and was famously...
Quiz Guy John Chaneski has crafted a puzzle about cocktails with rhyming names. For example, in Jackson or Biloxi you might be served a libation inspired by the long-haired subculture of the 1960s. What drink would that be? This is part of a...
Fadi from Indianapolis wondered why California governor Jerry Brown has been called Governor Moonbeam, especially after the nickname resurfaced in a political Twitter jab. The label came from Chicago newspaper columnist Mike Royko in the 1970s, when...
It might be the grooviest new holiday since Burning Man: Hippie Christmas is the annual festivity surrounding the end of the college school year, when students leave perfectly good clothing and household goods by the curb or the dumpster because...
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...