&lt;p&gt;[This episode first aired March 6, 2010.]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;Red sky at night, sailor&#039;s delight. Red sky at morning, sailor take warning.&quot; Martha talks about this weather proverb, which has been around in one form or another since ancient times. Grant shares a favorite weather word: slatch http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/slatch. Also this week: Is there a better alternative to the word &quot;mentee&quot;? What&#039;s &quot;pooflapoo pie&quot;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Dallas listener and her boss have a dispute. The boss says the staff should get &quot;on the stick.&quot; The caller and her co-workers say the correct phrase is &quot;on the ball.&quot; Grant gives her an answer, then suggests a third option used in Hawaii: &quot;on the kinipopo.&quot; http://bit.ly/bHw1F6&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What&#039;s the best term for &quot;someone who&#039;s being mentored&quot;? A woman in a mentoring program at church thinks the word &quot;mentee sounds like &quot;manatee.&quot; She&#039;s hoping for an alternative.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Grant shares another weather-related word from Britain: parky.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=57638&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quiz Guy John Chaneski offers a puzzle in honor of the hosts&#039; initials. Every clue prompts a two-word answer beginning with the letters M and B or G and B. For example: &quot;Paper or plastic?&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A caller named Todd says that when people meet him for the first time, they sometimes call him Scott, even if he&#039;s wearing a nametag with his real name on it. It&#039;s happened too many times to be a coincidence, he says, and wonders if there&#039;s something about the double letters that registers the wrong name in people&#039;s minds. Why do we get other people&#039;s names wrong?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whip up a big batch of pistachio pudding, then add pineapple, walnuts, Cool Whip, and marshmallow bits, and what do you have? A Los Angeles woman says her grandmother used to make a dish with those ingredients that she called &quot;pooflapoo pie.&quot; Is that just her family&#039;s name for it, or do other people refer to it that way? Other people call it &quot;Watergate salad&quot; or &quot;ambrosia.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have trouble remembering the difference between stalagtites and stalagmites? Martha shares a mnemonic that will help.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A police officer says that the prosecutor edits out the word &quot;that&quot; from the reports he submits, as in, &quot;The subject stated that he met the co-defendant at a party.&quot; Is the word &quot;that&quot; necessary here? Martha and Grant disagree. Also, the cop also has a brain-teaser for the hosts: Can you use the word &quot;that&quot; five times consecutively in a sentence correctly?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The hosts talk about the tricks they use to remember how to spell certain words.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why do we say that someone finely attired is &quot;dressed to the nines&quot;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A woman says that when playing hide-and-seek with a small child, her mother-in-law says &quot;peep-eye&quot;!&quot; instead of &quot;peekaboo&quot;!&quot; Is that usage limited to certain parts of the country? And where do they say &quot;pee-bo&quot;!&quot;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Grant talks about two other weather-related terms, &quot;frontogenesis&quot; and &quot;aeromancy.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When comparing one item with the rest of the items in a group, &quot;which is better: more or most&quot;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Way with Words is funded by its listeners: http://waywordradio.org/donate&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Get your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Email: words@waywordradio.org&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Phone: &lt;br /&gt;United States and Canada toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673&lt;br /&gt;London +44 20 7193 2113&lt;br /&gt;Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Donate: http://waywordradio.org/donate&lt;br /&gt;Site: http://waywordradio.org/&lt;br /&gt;Podcast: http://waywordradio.org/podcast/&lt;br /&gt;Forums: http://waywordradio.org/discussion/&lt;br /&gt;Newsletter: http://waywordradio.org/newsletter/&lt;br /&gt;Twitter: http://twitter.com/wayword/&lt;br /&gt;Skype: skype://waywordradio &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Copyright 2011, Wayword LLC.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;feedflare&quot;&gt;
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