A Texas listener says his family often describes a great meal as larrupin’. What does that mean, exactly? This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Larrupin'” Hello, you have A Way with Words. Hi, my name is Mark...
recess-ipe
n.— «Recess-ipes: 10 meals for $10 each.» —CNN.com Feb. 6, 2009. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Salut, superfriends! It's another newsletter from A Way with Words. This week's episode was a re-run, one that we particularly liked because it has the famed "dinner vs. supper" call, which is still generating buckets of mail...
On an earlier episode we talked about regional differences involving the words dinner and supper, prompting a whole smorgasbord of responses. Grant reads a few of them on the air. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Dinner and...
A middle-schooler who’s reading Anne of Green Gables is puzzled by a mention of “breakfast, dinner, and supper.” She wants to know if the words “dinner” and “lunch” really interchangeable. This is part of a...
stork dinner n.— «Tina Ayers, director of the obstetrics unit, explains, “The stork dinner is a celebratory dinner or lunch that we have arranged for the new mom and dad before they go home.”» —“A ‘Stork’ Dinner for...