Drinks Archives – A Way with Words

Your Two Cents (episode #1558)

Posted by Grant Barrett on December 7, 2020 · Add Comment

Names for the Part Tea, Part Lemonade Drink

Posted by Grant Barrett on December 5, 2020 · Add Comment

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Mary Gordon Has a Story

Posted by Grant Barrett on January 18, 2020 · Add Comment

Mary Gordon in Austin, Texas, shares a delightful story about her elderly father and a handful of vegetables, which raises the question: what’s the plural of squash? Squashes? Or squash? This is part of a complete episode.
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Drink a Cabinet

Posted by Grant Barrett on March 23, 2019 · Add Comment

Wendy from San Diego, California, is curious about the soda fountain treat known in Rhode Island and parts of Massachusetts as a cabinet. Elsewhere it’s called a milk shake, frappe, velvet, or frost. This is part of a complete episode.
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Stepmother Slice

Posted by Grant Barrett on March 6, 2015 · Add Comment

A stepmother slice, according to a 1915 citation in the Dictionary of American Regional English, is a slice of bread that’s too thick to bite. This is part of a complete episode.
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Coffee-nyms

Posted by Grant Barrett on November 7, 2014 · Add Comment

If your name is too difficult for the employees at Starbucks to accurately write on the side of a coffee cup, we suggest you take on a coffee-nym. Can’t go wrong with Elvis. This is part of a complete episode.
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