Hillary in Woodstock, Vermont, grew up saying mayonnaise as MY-oh-nayz, just like her mother did. That pronunciation is real and valid, though uncommon. The French-derived word has never fully anglicized, so dictionaries and dialect surveys record...
Rebecca from San Diego, California, wants to know the origin of the verb to bogart, as in “Don’t bogart that salad dressing!” meaning “don’t hog it” or “don’t use it all up.” The slang comes from the tough-guy screen persona of Humphrey Bogart, not...
Shannon Proudfoot’s tweet about thunderous epiphanies later in life prompted a response about misunderstanding the meaning of the term surgical dressing. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Misunderstanding Surgical...
