How do you pronounce moot point? Does it sound like mute, or rhyme with toot? This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Mute Point vs. Moot Point” Hello, you have A Way with Words. Hi, this is Stephen from Dallas. Hi, Stephen...
Caitlin from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, grew up calling the children’s message-passing game Whisper Down the Lane, but classmates knew it as Whisper Down the Alley, Telephone, or Broken Telephone. No firm U.S. regional boundary is known, although...
In this episode, a listener says his friend Harold likes to do social phoning while driving, so he’s invented a term for mindless calling while in the car. And no, it’s not “car-pe diem.” Also, Martha and Grant also discuss...