Wedding guests lip-sync to a song which is later set to music in the wedding video, forming a word combining marriage and karaoke: marryoke. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Marryoke” Here’s a word that’s...
A wedding photographer says she happens to run into lots of people who are three sheets to the wind, and wonders why that term came to mean “falling-down drunk.” Turns out, it’s from nautical terminology. On a seagoing vessel, the...
Quiz Guy Greg Pliska has a royal quiz in honor of the wedding of Kate Middleton and Prince William. He celebrates the wedding of the King and Queen with clues to answers that contain the letters “K” and “Q” next to each other...
An Indianapolis listener has a copy of a wedding poem that refers to the thrice-happy pair. Is a thrice-happy pair three times as happy as anyone else? Martha explains that the idea goes all the way back to Roman poetry. Here’s an example from...
You’re at a wedding and all the guests raise their glasses in unison and say “Here, here!” Or is it “Hear, hear”? This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Here, Here vs. Hear, Hear” Hello, you have...
You may remember the call we had from Tony in Encinitas, California. He was curious about the term for an unusual hazing ritual.