&lt;p&gt;[This episode first aired January 23, 2010.]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Good poetry is even better when you read it aloud. For his anthology, &quot;Essential Pleasures&quot; http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Pleasures-Anthology-Poems-Aloud/dp/0393066088, former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky selected works with just that in mind. Martha and Grant discuss a poem from the book with lines that are more delicious when spoken. Also this week: If a woman decides to keep her own name after getting married, should she be addressed as &quot;Ms. or Mrs.&quot;? When you were young, what did you call &quot;your favorite blanket&quot;? When do you &quot;redd up&quot; the table, and what does it mean to be &quot;out like Lottie&#039;s eye&quot;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The hosts talk about some verses from &quot;Essential Pleasures&quot; http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20680, Robert Pinsky&#039;s anthology of poems meant to be read aloud. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If a woman decides to keep her own name after getting married, should she be addressed as &quot;Ms.&quot; or &quot;Mrs.&quot;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;Don&#039;t be frontin&#039;!&quot; A Texas college student is curious about the origin of &quot;fronting,&quot; and learns that it goes back several decades to the world of petty criminals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What can go &quot;up a chimney down, but not down a chimney up&quot;? Martha has that riddle&#039;s answer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quiz Guy John Chaneski has a happy time with a word puzzle whose answers all include the word &quot;happy.&quot; Try this: &quot;The nickname of Xaviera Hollander, as derived from the title of her bestselling 1971 memoir.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you were small, did you have a favorite blanket? If so, what&#039;d you call it? A &quot;woobie&quot;? A &quot;blankie&quot;? A listener says her grandmother called hers an &quot;ookoosh,&quot; and wonders if the word reflects grandma&#039;s Czech roots. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you&#039;re driving and need to turn 180 degrees, you make a U-turn. But what do you make if you speak a language that doesn&#039;t include the letter &quot;U&quot;? If you&#039;re a Hindi speaker, what do you call wearing a V-neck sweater in an A-frame house?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When someone&#039;s fast asleep, a Texan might say that he&#039;s &quot;out like Lottie&#039;s eye.&quot; But who&#039;s Lottie and what happened to her eye? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some children don&#039;t talk until they&#039;re age three or older, then go on to do just fine. Why do some kids start speaking relatively late in life? The hosts talk about a recent Ask Metafilter http://ask.metafilter.com/139980/Why-didnt-I-say-anything-until-I-was-three thread on that topic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is there a word that describes someone who&#039;s good at visualizing how best to pack a suitcase or car? A Michigan woman is sure she heard such a term for someone who can visualize 3-D arrangements in advance, but darned if she can recall what it is. Can the hosts help?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Connecticut listener is suspicious of a Wikipedia entry that claims the slang term &quot;homie&quot; derives from Latin &quot;homo,&quot; meaning man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Spanish phrase &quot;Donde lloran, est&amp;aacute; al muerto&quot; literally translates as &quot;Where there&#039;s crying, there&#039;s a dead person.&quot; In everyday use, however, the meaning is somewhat different. You might use it, for example, to describe someone who claims not to have money when in fact he does. A bilingual caller wonders if there&#039;s an analogous expression that refers to someone who&#039;s miserly despite being wealthy. Grant recommends he check out &quot;A Dictionary of Mexican-American Proverbs&quot; http://www.amazon.com/Dictionary-Mexican-American-Proverbs/dp/0313253854 by Mark Glazer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another riddle I&#039;m taken from a mine and shut up in a wooden case from which I&#039;m never released, yet I&#039;m used by almost everybody. Who am I?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;Redd up the table&quot;! A California listener says he remembers hearing that all the time when growing up in Iowa, but now that he&#039;s on the West Coast, no one has any idea what he&#039;s talking about.&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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