A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over

Wired for Sound - 3 August 2026

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If someone tells you it’s flisky or flobby outside, do you need to take an umbrella?

A new book about England’s soggy climate includes 188 terms for rainy weather!

Americans have their own joking names for local weather, from June Gloom in Southern California to Snowvember on the East Coast.

And: Does it seem like automobiles are getting bigger lately?

They are indeed, and there’s a new word for that: carspreading.

Plus, no soldiering, drisk, kelsher, a musical puzzle, Fogust, esophagastroduodenoscopy, my boo, gorgeous, ballicater, chapping, prog, and Has your mother sold her mangle?

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