In dogsledding, the exclamations gee and haw are used for left and right respectively. A woman in Fairbanks, Alaska, uses those terms when training her dogs for the Iditarod and wonders about their origin. (As promised, here are her pups.) This is...
Sarah from Dallas asks how to spell the exclamation that rhymes with “woe”: woah or whoa? In U.S. edited prose, the standard spelling is whoa, the form recommended by AP style, though variants such as woah, whoah, and woa show up in email, blogs...
