A newscaster covering treacherous driving conditions offered this advice: Keep it between the mustard and the mayo. In other words, “Make sure your car stays between the yellow line and the white line on the road.” This is part of a complete episode...
Pun alert: What’s the best thing about Switzerland? This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “What’s the Best Thing About Switzerland?” Hey Grant, what’s the best thing about Switzerland? St. Bernard’s, mountains, snow, lovely lasses. Yeah...
According to Robert Macfarlane’s book Landmarks, long, thin patches of snow that have not yet melted are called snow bones. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Snow Bones” Here’s another term from the book Landmarks by Robert...
A deckhand on the Lake Champlain ferry in Burlington, Vermont, wonders if there’s a word for those accumulated chunks of ice in the wheel wells of cars. He calls them crusticles, but as we’ve discussed before, they go by lots of names, including...
Baseball is a rich source of slang, and the Dickson Baseball Dictionary by Paul Dickson is a trove of such language. A snow cone, in baseball lingo, is a ball caught so that it’s sticking up out of the fielder’s glove. And which month of the year is...
“Fair weather to you, and snow to your heels,” is one way for Newfoundlanders to wish each other good luck. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Newfoundland Good Luck” Grant, if I’m in Newfoundland and I want to wish you good luck, I...
