Comments on: Rubber Match http://www.waywordradio.org/rubber-match/ A lively radio program about words and language, broadcast on many NPR stations and heard by podcast around the world. It's more than grammar! Sat, 18 May 2013 23:30:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: hippogriff http://www.waywordradio.org/rubber-match/#comment-2812 hippogriff Sun, 16 Sep 2012 03:02:59 +0000 http://www.waywordradio.org/?p=1167#comment-2812 Hat: Dallas, TX, ’30s and ’40s; stocking cap, although I haven’t heard it used in years, Lower Mainland (Vancouver, BC), ’70s; toque, pronounced tuuk.

Shoes: same times and places; tennis shoes and runners.

Sees: a remarkably elastic measurement. In mountainous areas, could be a short as a half mile; on rolling hills about ten miles; on open prairie once was 30 miles, but polluted air now makes half that maximum and getting shorter.

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