Hey, hey, hey! It's another fat newsletter from "A Way with Words"! We never run out of things to talk about. Take this past weekend's show, for example. We tracked down the history of "Polly wanna cracker." It turns out...
For a closer look at the language of the twitterati, check out Erin McKean’s recent piece in the Boston Globe. Glossaries of Twitter-related terms can be found at Twittonary, and Twictionary. We didn’t say all the coinages were clever...
Beep-boop-beep! It's another newsletter from "A Way with Words." This weekend we had a row over the death of the subjunctive, listened with curiosity to a Texan talking about "help your plate," fell in love with...
jailbreak n.— «The iPhone/iTouch Dev guys have been hard at work for weeks and have finally managed to jailbreak 1.1.1.…So what does this jailbreak mean? Third Party apps run. Kind of. We probably have to recompile many of them for...
smogged
v.— «’67 PLYM Fury…belted tires, smogged, $895.» —“Autos For Sale” in classifieds Press-Telegram (Long Beach, California) Sept. 15, 1972. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
steal-me flag n. an upright mailbox flag, which indicates there is mail for pick-up but is also considered a signal to mail thieves. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)