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Tweet, Tweet! Polly Wanna Cracker?

Hey, hey, hey! It's another fat newsletter from "A Way with Words"! We never run out of things to talk about. Take this past weekend's show, for example. We tracked down the history of "Polly wanna cracker." It turns out...

The Language of Twitter

For a closer look at the language of the twitterati, check out Erin McKean’s recent piece in the Boston Globe. Glossaries of Twitter-related terms can be found at Twittonary, and Twictionary. We didn’t say all the coinages were clever...

jailbreak

jailbreak  n.— «The iPhone/iTouch Dev guys have been hard at work for weeks and have finally managed to jailbreak 1.1.1.…So what does this jailbreak mean? Third Party apps run. Kind of. We probably have to recompile many of them for...

smogged

smogged
 v.— «’67 PLYM Fury…belted tires, smogged, $895.» —“Autos For Sale” in classifieds Press-Telegram (Long Beach, California) Sept. 15, 1972. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

steal-me flag

steal-me flag n. an upright mailbox flag, which indicates there is mail for pick-up but is also considered a signal to mail thieves. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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