Mav in Madison, Wisconsin, has heard content creators on platforms like YouTube and Twitch address their viewers collectively with the word chat, as in Chat, is this real? and Do you see this, chat? She’s heard some people describe chat used in this...
A listener in Cairns, Queensland, Australia shared this brain teaser: 11 was 1 racehorse/ 22 was 1 2 / 1111 race / 22112. It may look mystifying, but when you sound it out correctly, it makes perfect sense. The Ha Ha Bonk Book (Amazon) is full of...
In parts of Appalachia, really weak coffee is sometimes referred to as scared water. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Scared Water” In parts of Appalachia, if you want to describe coffee that’s really weak, you can describe it as...
Piper from Reno, Nevada, wonders why a movie trailer is called a trailer when it comes at the beginning of a film. Isn’t a trailer something that follows something else? This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Why Do Movie Trailers Come...
Sayed lives in Houston, Texas, but grew up in Pakistan speaking Urdu and Punjabi. As someone who began learning English two years ago, he finds that he often mixes up gendered pronouns. It’s not surprising that he would confuse he with she and him...
Sophia, a 13-year-old from Naperville, Illinois, says she, her sister, and friends use search it up to mean look it up online, despite her mother’s objection that it should be look it up or just search it. The phrasing is real and especially common...
