How do languages change and grow? Does every language acquire new words in the same way? Martha and Grant focus on how that process happens in English and Spanish. Plus, the stories behind the Spanish word gringo and the old instruction to...
Bridget in Indianapolis, Indiana, knows raunchy as something bawdy or ribald, but her husband’s family uses it to mean “icky,” “unpleasant,” or “under the weather.” She first noticed the difference when his very polite Southern grandmother said his...