What’s the antidote to living in a sound-bite world? How about unwinding with luxuriously expressive prose? Also, the cloak-and-dagger world of editing dictionary entries. Plus, what you might say instead of cursing, and oddball Scrabble words to...
A listener in Decorah, Iowa, hears her partner use rubber match for the deciding game in cribbage, after each player has won one. The expression means a tiebreaker in a best-of series, and it’s been applied to card games, baseball, tennis, game...