After misunderstanding the term tummy ache as tummy egg, a three-year-old has questions. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Tummy Egg” Stephanie Thompson in Mammoth Lakes, California wrote to us to say, My then three-year...
After our conversation about a verbose admonition to use short words, a Tallahassee, Florida, man called with a version he learned as a boy: Do you have the audacity to doubt my veracity? Or even to insinuate that I would prevaricate? While...