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Failure to launch: it may be a 2006 Matthew McConaughey movie given one star by Roger Ebert, but more often,…
(Paraphrased listener question) When my son was in elementary school, I started hearing kids use the phrases “these ones” and…
As a parent, I often find myself asking questions I never thought I would ask: How long can someone survive…
Here’s a question for you: In what world do “baraag,” “toot,” “toerroe,” “baaa,” “paoh-paoh,” and “u-u-u” all mean the…
The 75th anniversary of D-Day is coming up in just a few months and that made me think about…
In 2017, I asked people on Twitter what it’s called when a family has words only they understand, and some…
Meteorologists talk not only about what the temperature will be outside, but also what that temperature “feels like.” Why are…
Listener Maro from Argentina wrote in and noted that recently, he hasn’t been enjoying things the way he used to.…
I like myriad 10,000 Maniacs songs—”These Are Days,” “Candy Everybody Wants,” “Few and Far Between,” and probably more that I…
Today we’re talking about the asterisk: how you use it and how it differs from other footnote symbols. What Is…