The names of professional sports teams often have surprising histories — like the baseball team name inspired by, of all things, trolley-car accidents. Plus, some questions to debate at your next barbecue: Is a hot dog a sandwich if it’s...
Burqueño slang, spoken by residents of Albuquerque, New Mexico, includes such expressions as umbers, said ominously when someone’s caught doing something wrong, as well as get down, meaning “to get out of a vehicle” and put gas for...
In Albuquerque schoolyards, umbers was the call kids made when a classmate got in trouble, and Rachel from Dallas, Texas, remembers joining in whenever someone was sent to the principal’s office or punished at recess. It’s similar to...