To transmit information during wartime, various industries used to encode their messages letter by letter with an elaborate system–a primitive version of today’s digital encryption. Grant breaks down some of those secret codes, and...
A young woman who works as a nanny wants to know why the term charge is used to refer to the youngsters she cares for. Charge goes back to a Latin root meaning, “to carry,” and it essentially has to do with being responsible for...
A female sheep is an ewe, a goat is a nanny, but what’s a female kangaroo? A flyer. This is part of a complete episode.
nanny n.— «I remember the first time I saw a Jamaican $100 bill. It was at home in St. Thomas and an “uncle’ was visiting from the United States.…I do not know when the $100 became a “bills,” as it is commonly...
relo n.— «The Wall Street kids all get relo money from their companies. You want to beat them out you gotta pay up front.» —by Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus The Nanny Diaries Mar. 13, 2002. (source: Double-Tongued...