What could sound more romantic than French kissing? Perhaps its archaic synonym, cataglossism. Here’s a limerick to help you remember this word. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Cataglossism” I have a limerick here about the word...
You’re at a social gathering and meet someone you’d like to know better. What do you ask to get a real conversation going? Some people lead with “What do you do?,” while others avoid talking about work entirely. Still others ask, “Where’d you go to...
In the U.S., we say mwah for the kissing noise. In parts of South America, it’s chuik. And for linguists, of course, it’s a bilabial lingual ingressive click. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Writing a Kiss” You’re listening to A...
The Western Folklore Journal of 1976 gives us such romantic phrases as “kisses like a cold fish,” “kisses like your brother through a screen,” and “kisses like a wet brick.” This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Kiss Like a Wet Brick”...
That thing when someone kisses you so well that your toes curl up? It’s called a foot pop. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Foot Pop” You know when you’re really kissed, I mean good and well, yeah, and your toes kind of do that...
A professional auctioneer shares some techniques for creating his mesmerizing, melodious patter. He explains that auctioneers are known as colonels, because colonels in the civil war were assigned with auctioning off captured property. And he warns...
