Jill from Greenville, South Carolina, wants to know why pickle automatically means “pickled cucumber,” as opposed to other pickled vegetables, such as onions and carrots. The answer has to do with prototypicality, the cultural agreement that one...
What’s a “barbecue stopper,” and how does it differ from a “marmalade dropper”? This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Australian Political Slang” Grant, I was nosing around your website, Doubletongue.org, the other day, and I was...