Sheila in Billings, Montana, noticed that she and her husband, both from Colorado, use the two-syllable pronunciation of coyote, something like /KYE-oat/, while their children back East hear the three-syllable version more often, more or less /kye...
Howdy! In this week's archive episode: Do you know the meaning of "McGimpers"? How about "geetus"? We discuss these and other examples of underworld slang from the 1930s. In this show, crime novelist James Ellroy stops by to...
Pet names often take a while to settle, then keep changing. A tiny Maltese-poodle mix arrived as Mitzi, nearly became Daisy or Cucaracha, and finally became Lily, a name easy to call out in the urgent phrase “Lily, no!” A Great Pyrenees named Bandy...
jallad n.— «Ever wondered where does the Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) disposes off animal carcasses? Well, it could be just anywhere—along a deserted road, a culvert…or even on a lane along the backyard of your house. A peculiar situation...
rat spill n. the accidental importation of rats to a rat-free island (or, rarely, to any rat-free piece of land). (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
