I'm a young Faggity and you can think of me as your friendly guide to the English language.

We talk about writing, history, rules, and other cool stuff.

This week I've been recording a new LinkedIn learning course and my voice is kind of thrashed,

so I'm going to give you two fun old segments from 2014, Heavy on the History.

First, you'll hear about the origin of teddy bears and whether to capitalize the name.

And then you'll hear about what the brother's grim of fairy tales have to do with linguistics.

I love both these segments.

We'll also have a new family-legged story at the end, and I have to thank them many of you

who told me that the phrases in last week's family-legged story, horse hockey, bowl-pucky,

and so on were commonly used by Colonel Potter in the TV show Mash.

Apparently, he liked bowl cookies, bowl twinkies, both not buffalo bagels, monkey muffins,

horse feathers, mule fritters, and ponypucks.

You can find lists of even more online.

Every time I go to the mall and see a build-up bear store, I'm reminded that teddy bears

get their name from the US President Teddy Roosevelt.

The story goes that in 1902, Roosevelt went to the South to settle a border dispute between

Mississippi and Louisiana.

And while he was there, he went on a bear hunt.

Well, the hunting wasn't going so well, and the organizers wanted the president to be

happy, so they captured a bear for him and tied it up.

When Roosevelt arrived, they presented him with a poor trust-up bear suggesting that

he shoot it.

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