&lt;p&gt;SUMMARY&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;English is full of unusual terms, both old (eleemosynary, favonian) and new (flyway, catio). Also, the Swahili term that means &quot;sleep like a log,&quot; the multiple meanings of the word joint, what it means to play gooseberry, cowpies and horse biscuits, and how to punctuate the expression &quot;Guess what.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FULL DETAILS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thinking about a flyaway, or will you spend the weekend gazing out at the catio? Grant explains these new terms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is subscribing just for magazines and podcasts, or can you subscribe to an idea? A husband and wife disagree over whether the latter is grammatically correct.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Swahili phrase nililala fofofo means &quot;to sleep really well.&quot; Literally, though, it translates as &quot;to sleep like a log.&quot; Are the English and Swahili idioms related?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In French, tenir la chandelle means &quot;to act as a chaperone,&quot; though literally it&#039;s &quot;to hold the candle.&quot; Another expression that means &quot;to chaperone&quot; is the antiquated English phrase &quot;to play gooseberry.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;License-plate bingo, anyone? Quiz Guy John Chaneski offers a radio version.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;Who is &#039;she&#039;? The cat&#039;s mother?&quot; A Davis, Ca., man remembers his mother&#039;s indignant use of this expression, and he&#039;s curious about the origin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Should you pronounce the word coyote with two syllables or three? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Northern California caller that discovers that in Britain, an invitation to share a joint doesn&#039;t mean what it does back home.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eleemosynary is the title of a play by Lee Blessing. The play celebrates this and other unusual words, including sortilege, charivari, ungulate, favonian, and logodaedaly. Martha saw a production at San Diego&#039;s Moxie Theater, and takes the opportunity to discuss those words, plus the fizzy roots of moxie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Guess what! Or would that be Guess what? A Honolulu listener asks about the right way to punctuate this interjection. Should you use an exclamation mark or a question mark? How about an interrobang or a pronequark? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Texas listener says his family often describes a great meal as larrupin&#039;. What does that mean, exactly?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Grant talks about FOIA (&quot;pronounced FOY-uh&quot;), a bit of journalists&#039; jargon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cowpies, horse biscuits, buffalo chips, horse dumplings -- why do so many names for animal droppings have to do with food? A caller wonders this, and whether the term cowpie would be an anachronism in a Civil War novel.&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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