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Why Do Some People Call Rock-Paper-Scissors Roshambo?
Ben Zimmer, Mike Vuolo, and Bob Garfield
May 17, 2016
11:33 AM
The Blaccent: What Does It Mean to Sound Black?
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo
May 03, 2016
11:14 AM
Red Herring: A Wild Goose Chase That Stinks From Fish
Bob Garfield, Mike Vuolo, and Ben Zimmer
April 19, 2016
11:25 AM
Is Sh-t Show a German Calque? The OED Needs Your Help!
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo
April 04, 2016
9:31 AM
Take It With a Grain of Salt! But Why a Single Grain? And Why Salt?
Ben Zimmer, Mike Vuolo, and Bob Garfield
March 08, 2016
11:08 AM
A Brief History of Sad, Donald Trump’s Favorite Insult
Mike Vuolo and Bob Garfield
Feb 22, 2016
5:12 PM
A British MP Called Donald Trump a Wazzock. What’s a Wazzock?
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo
Feb 08, 2016
10:22 AM
The Fall and Rise of the Singular They
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo
Jan 27, 2016
2:00 PM
The Origins of In Cahoots: Four Theories
Ben Zimmer, Mike Vuolo, and Bob Garfield
Jan 11, 2016
11:55 AM
2015: A Year of Pictographs and Identity Politics in Our Language
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo
Dec 28, 2015
9:32 AM
So You Just Got Eighty-Sixed From a Bar. Why That Number?
Bob Garfield, Mike Vuolo, and Ben Zimmer
Dec 14, 2015
9:23 AM
When Did We Start Using Sleep as a Stand-In for Sex and Death?
Mike Vuolo and Bob Garfield
Nov 30, 2015
10:50 AM
Woody Guthrie’s Folk Etymology. It’s a Hootenanny!
Ben Zimmer, Mike Vuolo, and Bob Garfield
Nov 16, 2015
12:05 PM
How Did Pussy Come to Mean a Cat, a Coward, and Female Genitalia?
Mike Vuolo and Bob Garfield
Nov 02, 2015
9:14 AM
A Drone, a Bell, and a Suffix. It’s a Real Humdinger!
Ben Zimmer, Mike Vuolo, and Bob Garfield
Oct 19, 2015
10:47 AM
The F-Word Is Much Older Than We Thought
Mike Vuolo and Bob Garfield
Oct 05, 2015
11:32 AM
An Ambitious Enterprise, Quixotic and Unavailing
Ben Zimmer, Mike Vuolo, and Bob Garfield
Sept 21, 2015
9:46 AM
How Did New York Become the Big Apple?
Mike Vuolo and Bob Garfield
Sept 08, 2015
10:39 AM
Why Do Latin Americans Call English Speakers Gringos?
Mike Vuolo and Bob Garfield
Aug 24, 2015
11:08 AM
What Do We Mean When We Ask What Something Is Like?
Mike Vuolo and Bob Garfield
Aug 10, 2015
11:11 AM