Allison in Redwood City, California, says her family has long used the word zorbit to refer to what happens when someone playfully blows a raspberry on your cheek or belly to make a funny sound. That’s probably their version of a fanciful word first...
In this downbeat economy, some advertisers are reaching for upbeat language. Take the new Quaker Oats catchphrase, “Go humans go,” or Coca-Cola’s current slogan, “Open happiness.” Martha and Grant discuss whether chirpy, happy ad copy can go too far...
Zerbert is another name for making a sputtering raspberry on a child’s belly. Chris from Rockwell, Texas, wants to know whether Bill Cosby coined the word, a question that comes up at home with a three-year-old and a six-year-old and plenty of...

