Did we stop referring to young urban professionals as yuppies? A listener in Madison, Wisconsin, says his younger co-workers told him they’d never heard of the word. The use of the word yuppie peaked around 1990, and has dramatically dropped...
Leah, a college student in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, asks: Does biweekly mean “twice a week” or “once every two weeks”? In British English, fortnightly specifies “once every two weeks.” But biweekly is...
spanko n.— «I use the work spanko a lot and I don’t think there is anything derogatory about it. I assume it is a shortened form of spankophile. I don’t know what word you could use to replace it since it is one of the few words that can...