While in a cooking class in Mexico, Travis from Orlando, Florida, was told by the instructor that the word quesadilla comes a supposed Nahuatl word, quesaditzen. That’s not the case, although many other food words derive from that indigenous...
A Florida eighth grader wants to know if a word she memorized for a spelling bee is real: agathokakological. Easy for her to say. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Agathokakological” Hello, you have A Way with Words. Hi, this is...
head-knocker n.— «The man who arranged Moore’s murder was most probably Joseph Neville Cox, the secretary of the Orlando chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, who organized a handful of Klan “head-knockers,” as they were called, arranged to purchase...
zuke n.— «Besides the locally grown “zuke,” as the vegetable is affectionately known, there are pageants for boys and girls that will choose, for instance, the Duke of Zuke and the festival’s Zuqueenie.» —“From the Atlantic to zucchini, festivals...