&lt;p&gt;SUMMARY:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is typing two spaces after a period &quot;totally, completely, utterly, and inarguably wrong?&quot; Martha and Grant disagree. Also, is the language of the movie &quot;True Grit&quot; historically accurate? Also, shut your pie-hole, Southern grammar, Oh my Lady Gaga, and a little town called Podunk.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FULL DETAILS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How many spaces go after a period?&amp;nbsp; Your schoolteacher may have taught you to use two, but others strongly disagree. &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.slate.com/id/2281146/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shut your piehole! means &quot;Shut your mouth!&quot; Need more slang terms for the mouth? For starters, there&#039;s potato trap, tater trap, tatty trap, bun trap, gingerbread trap, kissing trap, fly trap, rattle trap, baconhole, and cakehole.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where is Podunk?&amp;nbsp; Grant explains that a columnist in the 1800s used the name for his series called &quot;Life in the Small Town of Podunk,&quot; referring to a generic backwoods American town.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A listener shares a phrase he learned in Peru that translates as &quot;more lost than a hard-boiled egg in ceviche.&quot; It describes someone who&#039;s lost or clueless.&lt;br /&gt;Quiz Guy John Chaneski has a game worthy of the Saturday puzzle called &quot;Cryptic Crosswords&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is the formal language in &quot;True Grit&quot; (2010) historically accurate?&amp;nbsp; The hosts discuss why the Coen brothers would do away with contractions to set a tone for the movie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A transplant from Zimbabwe finds the word irregardless annoying and ungrammatical. Grant explains that regardless of its status, &quot;irregardless&quot; is needlessly redundant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The phrase oh, my goodness may be a dated way to express surprise or disbelief.&amp;nbsp; A listener asks for a contemporary replacement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Multiple modals, as in the phrase &quot;I thought y&#039;all may would have some more of them,&quot; have their own logic and are well understood by many in the American South.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Database of Multiple Modals compiled by Paul Reed and Michael Montgomery is here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://casdemo.cas.sc.edu/modals_d/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you call someone a card, it means they&#039;re funny or quick-witted.&amp;nbsp; Grant and Martha discuss the metaphors inspired by the language of playing cards. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What do you serve to a lawyer coming to dinner?&amp;nbsp; A listener shares her riddle for the &quot;What Would You Serve&quot; game?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have you been asked to trip the light fantastic?&amp;nbsp; This phrase, meaning &quot;dance the night away&quot;, dates back to a poem by John Milton from 1640.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Martha shares the German slang term niveaulimbo, meaning &quot;a limbo of standards&quot;. &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;Why is the word pound abbreviated lb.?&amp;nbsp; A listener from Tijuana, Mex., learns that the answer relates to his native Spanish as well as the Latin term for &quot;weighing.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Martha reads a love sonnet by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. Here&#039;s the text of the original Spanish, with an English translation by Mark Eisner.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.redpoppy.net/poem37.php&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And here&#039;s a lovely audio rendering of the poem in Spanish.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJhxNhy3BVA&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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