This past weekend on "A Way with Words," we mulled over whether part of the recession-busting bailouts the government is proposing should be targeted at reviving the Federal Writers' Project of the 1930s. Get a taste of that, and more...
This week’s Slang This! contestant shares his favorite slang term, teho, (To Each His Own), then tries to puzzle out the meaning of the terms karzy and low-bush moose. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Karzy and Low-Bush Moose”...
Stand back! It's another newsletter from A Way with Words. This past weekend on A Way with Words we talked about crossword puzzles. This coming weekend superstar solvers from across the continent will gather in Brooklyn, New York, to test their...
A caller from Maine says she was taught to say “bunny, bunny” at the first of each month for good luck. Then she met someone who says “rabbit, rabbit” for the same reason. What’s the superstition behind these lagomorphic locutions? This is part of a...
rabbit n.— «Volunteers must go through an 80-hour training course to be certified Investigative Man Tracking Search Associates.…Once they got their orders, the three rescuers doing the assessment went right to work identifying signs of the missing...
barrette
n.— «Sometimes the rows of colored approach lights are referred to as “barrettes.”» —“Why do pilots want to kill the rabbit?” by Meryl Getline USA Today Feb. 20, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)