Our earlier conversation about the word ruminate prompts a Fort Worth, Texas, listener to send a poem that his aunt, an elementary-school teacher, made him memorize as a child: This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Gum...
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Kirby in Deer River, Minnesota, an agriculture science and Future Farmers of America advisor, asks whether ruminate as in pondering comes from the cud-chewing done by ruminants. The image fits, but the figurative language is older than modern farm...