What other names could a team use if they realize it’s time to give up calling themselves the “Redskins”? Also, what should we call those people who don’t turn left as as soon as the traffic light goes green? Plus, the...
A ninth-grade English teacher in Canfield, Ohio, says that when her class reached the climactic scene in The Odyssey where Odysseus bends his mighty bow and kills his wife’s suitors, a student wondered whether the correct phrase is shoot a bow...
Liam from Dallas, Texas, asks what to call more than one Cyclops after a game raised the problem of naming an army of one-eyed mythical monsters. The most common plural is cyclopes, pronounced sye-KLOH-peez, reflecting the word’s Greek roots in...
Barbara from Del Mar, California, works in a church mentoring program and wants a warmer alternative to mentee, which to her ear swims a little too close to manatee. Protégé is a well-established possibility, though it can suggest a favored or...