A caller with a 25-year-old parrot wonders: How much language do birds really understand? Plus, Knock-knock. Who’s there? Boo. Well… you can guess the rest. But there was a time when these goofy jokes were a brand-new craze sweeping the nation...
Mallory, a seventh-grader in Colorado with lots of freckles in a family that mostly doesn’t, asks about freckle. The word is recorded in English as far back as the 14th century, though its deeper origin is uncertain. It probably came through a...