If you’ve never dined on funistrada, braised trake, or buttered ermal, you’re not missing out, nor are you alone. All of those are made-up food names that were part of a 1972 survey given to thousands of members of the U.S. military to...
Some 50 years ago, says Susan from Burbank, California, she and a friend made up a game involving prefixes and suffixes, which led to such nonsense words as epidormithry and postpreparize. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of...
Who coined supercalifragilisticexpialidocious? This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” Hello, you have A Way with Words. Hi, this is Gillian. I’m calling from Fort Worth, Texas. How...
Did Gary Owen invent the word insegrevious? And is there a category for words that can mean anything you want them to? This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Insegrevious as a Nonsense Word with No Fixed Meaning” Hi, you have...