Rob and Andrea in Wilmington, Delaware, ask about a word they associate with southern West Virginia. It’s a word for something you “put on” bad behavior to shut it down, and it sounds like it’d be spelled something like quieenus. Their word is...
You dream of writing the great American novel, but to make ends meet, you spend your days writing boring corporate reports. There’s a difference between writing for love and writing for a living — or is there? Does a heyday have anything to do with...
Jay in Fort Worth, Texas, grew up in Wisconsin hearing kibosh as KIB-bosh, not the more common KYE-bosh. To put the kibosh—also spelled kybosh—on something is to stop it decisively and fast; the word has also been used as a verb and even an...