Say you’re on a long road trip. Do you have a term for another driver who happens to be traveling the same direction and sets the pace for your car mile after mile? In an earlier episode, a Rhode Island listener left us wondering why her Swedish...
While on a road trip, a listener caught herself using the expression beat-feeting, as in We were beat-feeting it to New York and back. Might it have to do with the mode of transportation in the old Flintstones cartoon? This is part of a complete...
Quiz Guy John Chaneski takes us on a road trip, which means another round of the License Plate Game! This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “New License Plate Word Game” You’re listening to A Way with Words, the show about language and...
A listener in Weathersfield, Vermont, remembers going on car trips as a young child and wondering why, toward the end of the day, her parents would be on the lookout for motels with “bacon seed.” This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of...
If someone directs you to drive three sees, they’re advising you “drive as far as you can see, then do it two more times.” This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Drive Sees” We got an email from Jean Ritzema in Indianapolis, who wrote to...
If someone handed you something and told you to “stick it in your jockey box,” where would you put it? A Baltimore caller who grew up in Utah says when he used this term on a road trip with a friend, his pal was flummoxed. Is jockey box an...