A husband and wife from San Antonio, Texas, disagree over the meaning of the word regret. Is it possible to say you regret that you never met Albert Einstein or heard Freddy Mercury in concert? Is regret a matter of having remorse for something you...
Martha shares the term “hit and giggle”, a bit of sports slang term she picked up while working as an announcer at this year’s Mercury Insurance Open tennis tournament. This is part of a complete episode.
sputter v.— «A thin gas of electrically charged particles called a plasma, the solar wind blows constantly from the surface of the sun at some 250 to 370 miles per second (about 400 to 600 kilometers/second). According to Slavin...
fishetarian n.— «“I call them ’fishetarians’” says Hightower.…“They are vegetarians, but they eat a lot of fish.”» —“Power plants are focus of drive to cut mercury” by Larry Wheeler USA...
chalcogel n.— «The discovery, reported in the latest issue of Science magazine, has proven to be the ideal cleaner for waters infested with heavy metals like cadmium, lead or mercury. Chalcogel is a rigid material that can be used to...
Frenched adj.— «Logan brought his lavenderand-black hot rod. It started life as a 1951, four-door Mercury. Its roof has been lowered—or “chopped” in hot rod parlance. The lights have been recessed—“frenched”—into the body.» —“Garden...
