&lt;p&gt;SUMMARY&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some of the world&#039;s most famous writers had to support themselves with day jobs. Martha and Grant discuss well-known authors who toiled away at other trades. Also this week, Eskimo kisses, the frozen Puerto Rican treat called a limber, how the word fail ended up as a noun, the phrase I&#039;m efforting that, and where you would throw a houlihan. And what&#039;s a chester drawers?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FULL DETAILS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some of the world&#039;s greatest writers had to do their work while holding down a day job. William Faulkner and Anthony Trollope toiled as postal clerks. Zora Neal Hurston trained as an anthropologist. Vladimir Nabokov was a lepidopterist who curated a butterfly exhibit at Harvard. Literary historian Jack Lynch tells the stories of these and others in his new book, Don&#039;t Quit Your Day Job: What the Famous Did That Wasn&#039;t. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://bit.ly/aT4oXe&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An Indianapolis newspaperman complains about his colleagues&#039; use of the phrase I&#039;m efforting that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A woman in Racine, Wis., says her father and his fellow bus drivers always pronounced the word schedule as &quot;skeh-DOO-lee.&quot; Is that an accepted pronunciation? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Todd Purdum&#039;s recent Vanity Fair article on the presidency contains intriguing beltway slang, including gaggle and full lid.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://bit.ly/cXgmIj&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quiz Guy John Chaneski has a game called &quot;Word Search.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;A woman of Puerto Rican descent wonders about limber, the name of the savory frozen treat popular in her homeland. Was it really named in honor of aviator Charles Lindbergh?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A man in Huntington Beach, Ca., ponders his teenager&#039;s frequent use of the words fail and epic fail. Grant explains what this has to do with linguistic bleaching, and discusses some funny fails on failblog.org.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://failblog.org/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Martha has an example of a linguistic false friend: In Latvian, the word vista means &quot;chicken.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On a recent episode of &quot;Mad Men,&quot; a character said &quot;keep me in the loop.&quot; Was that phrase really around in the 1960s? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everyone knows old proverbs, but what about modern ones? Here&#039;s an aphorism attributed to William Gibson: &quot;The future is already here. It&#039;s just not evenly distributed.&quot; The hosts discuss some others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After a San Diego man used the term Eskimo kiss with his preschooler, they both wondered about its origin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An Indiana woman is puzzled about a phrase in the old western song, &quot;I Ride An Old Paint&quot;: &quot;I&#039;m goin&#039; to Montana to throw the houlihan.&quot; What&#039;s a houlihan? You&#039;ll find one version of the lyrics here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://to.pbs.org/bmHyw2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are different interpretations of this cowboy classic by Johnny Cash and Woody Guthrie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://bit.ly/9h03hD&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://bit.ly/9cEqws&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On an earlier show, Martha mentioned the popular detergent in the Middle East called Barf. Martha shares email from listeners who say that although the word spelled the same as English &quot;barf,&quot; the Farsi pronunciation is somewhat different.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.waywordradio.org/a-gazelle-on-the-lawn/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ever hear anyone refer to a wooden dresser as a chester drawers? A woman who grew up in St. Louis only recently learned that not everyone uses this term.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Martha reports that, during her recent attempt at learning to surf, she picked up lots of surfing lingo in between wipeouts. Here&#039;s a handy glossary of such terms, including tombstoning and pearling, both of which she did quite a bit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://bit.ly/da7hqe&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! 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