In your bathroom or kitchen the pipes connected to the sink and toilet and dishwasher are called plumbing, and the people who work on these pieces of infrastructure are called plumbers because at one time pipes were made of lead. SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hol

We use cylinders to get around which is etymologically appropriate. SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. In London the subway is called the tube. A cylinder is a tube but when I say ldquo;we us

My mother-in-law brought over a pomegranate a while ago. My kids like pomegranates it never seemed to occur to them to eat it until I steered it to the table one day. SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE f

Two senses come to mind when I think of the word exhaust: the pollution belching out of all the tailpipes on all the cars; and how I feel at the end of a long day. Whatrsquo;s the link? SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo.

How is sitting at your desk related to any kind of Olympic sport? SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. Back a few thousand years ago, before video games and online texting, people had to figur

Woody Allen said of his work ldquo;I donrsquo;t want to achieve immortality through my workhellip;I want to achieve it through not dying.rdquo; SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. The word wo

Why does to throw in the towel mean to give up? SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. This episode started out to be an episode about the word towel. But I didnrsquo;t think there was too much t

I actually heard a reporter once say that a literacy report was disturbing because almost half of students had below average scores. Well, they would, wouldnrsquo;t they? SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FR

New Year, new decade. The word year is a decidedly Old English word. SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. A year is the length of time for the seasons to go full circle. This is a pretty unive

There are triathlons and pentathlons but what exactly is an athlon? SPONSOR: GotoMeeting Hold your meetings online for just $49/mo. Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. The word athlete came to us from Greek via Latin and first appeared in English in 1528.