Does your family use a special word you’ve never heard anywhere else? A funny name for “the heel of a loaf of bread,” perhaps, or for “visiting relatives who won’t leave.” In this week’s episode, Martha and Grant discuss “family words,” and Martha...
How-do, neighbor! It’s another issue of the A Way with Words newsletter. This past weekend's show was a brand-new treat, stuffed full of chewy language goodness. We talked about "the vapors," whether "heebie-jeebies" is anti...
This week’s “Slang This!” contestant tries to decipher the slang phrases dance at two weddings and put the big pot in the little pot. She also shares her own favorite slang terms for crumb crusher, rug rat and ankle biter. By the way, you can read...
groundhopping n.— «Its called groundhopping, and even the hobby’s followers acknowledge it is a little strange.…groundhoppers ticking off matches at this year’s Asian Cup, crisscrossing the region frantically to squeeze in as many as possible in...
shuttlecock procedure n.— «The respondent spouse/parent resident in Malaysia against whom a provisional order of maintenance has been made by a reciprocating country may raise any defence that he might have raised in the original proceedings had he...
Indon n.— «“Often, they (Malaysian society) refer to Indonesia’s labour force as “Indon’ (a truncated version of Indonesian).” The writer said that “Indon” was a derogatory term to describe people who are less than equal.…”Indon” has been gaining...
