&lt;p&gt;SUMMARY&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have collective nouns for animals, like &quot;a gaggle of geese,&quot; &quot;a pride of lions,&quot; and &quot;an exaltation of larks.&quot; So why not collective nouns for plants? How about a &quot;greasing of palms,&quot; or a &quot;pursing of tulips&quot;? Also, the difference between further and farther, the proper use of crescendo, how Shakespeare sounded in his day, and why a child&#039;s runny nose is sometimes referred to as lamb&#039;s legs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FULL DETAILS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have collective nouns for animals, like &quot;a gaggle of geese,&quot; &quot;a pride of lions,&quot; and &quot;an exaltation of larks.&quot; So why not collective nouns for plants? How about a &quot;greasing of palms,&quot; or a &quot;pursing of tulips&quot;? Martha shares some others collected on the site of food writer Gary Allen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://bit.ly/bKG1yC&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reverend William Archibald Spooner was known for transposing sounds, like raising a glass &quot;to our queer old dean&quot; instead of &quot;to our dear old queen.&quot; A caller shares some favorite Spoonerisms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Boil up some pigs&#039; neck bones, add some liver sausage and buckwheat, mold it in a loaf, then slice, fry, and serve with syrup. Some folks call that scrapple, but a Milwaukee woman&#039;s family calls it pannas. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A listener asks: &quot;Does the phrase &quot;snap, crackle, and pop&quot; need a cereal comma?&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quiz Guy John Chaneski has a puzzle about anagrams.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What did Shakespeare&#039;s plays sound like in his day? An acting teacher with an interest in dialects wants to know how researchers reconstruct Elizabethan speech. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Pennsylvania college student remembers playing a game called &quot;Whisper Down the Lane.&quot; She&#039;s surprised to learn that her fellow students call the same game &quot;Telephone.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What&#039;s the difference between further and farther?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Martha shares more funny collective plant names, including a &quot;mommy of poppies.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pity the poor typeface designer, always seeing anachronisms in movies and TV. Imagine how painful it must be watching a World War II movie, only to see a document printed in Snell Roundhand Bold, a font invented in 1972.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here&#039;s typeface expert Mark Simonson&#039;s analysis of the lettering on &quot;Mad Men.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://bit.ly/3L4a99&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More about the life of font designers in the new book, Just My Type, by Simon Garfield:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://bit.ly/as5o5a&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some speakers of American English use the word whenever to refer to a single event, as in &quot;whenever Abraham Lincoln&quot; died. This locution is a vestige of Scots-Irish speech.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A professional musician maintains that many people use the word crescendo incorrectly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A father of two small children says his Indiana family referred to a child&#039;s runny nose as a &quot;lamb&#039;s legs,&quot; as in &quot;We need to wipe the lamb&#039;s legs off.&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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