Listeners write in with suggestions for a young caller’s request for a single term to describe someone in a state of nervous anticipation. They propose aflutter, atwitter, nervousited, happrehensive, and a noun form, antrepidation. This is...
Bespoke, as in bespoke tailored clothing, comes from an old word meaning “spoken for”—to bespeak means to request or order a good or service. This is part of a complete episode.
When did the word slick become a positive word meaning “cool” or “excellent”? This is part of a complete episode.
A Texas listener came across the word Boche in a biography of a French statesman, and wants to know: What does it mean, exactly?