Jimmy and his high-school classmates wonder about the pronunciation of words like zooplankton, zoology, and zoological. The traditional pronunciation for many scientific terms that start with zoo- is to use a long o rather than an oo sound. The...
A listener says she and her husband called their unborn child “wohube.” What other noms de fetus are there? This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Wohube” Every once in a while, Martha, we do a show about family words. We talk about the...
placenta mooch n.— «I probably shouldn’t be a mother. At least I didn’t refer to it as a crotch dumpling or placenta mooch like I call other people’s kids.» —“I hope we don’t get the six pack…“ by Chrissy (Christine) Kittybutts.org (Phoenix...