I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time.

Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is

then sweaty armpits because like you're wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps

and heath and you get to the top and you're like and then you can see the breath

but then your nose is still freezing to touch.

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DHQ.

Hello I'm Nicole Holiday a linguistics professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

And I'm Ben Zimmer who language columnist for the Wall Street Journal.

And this is spectacular vernacular a podcast where we not only explore language.

We also play with it. This week our guest is Everdeen Mason,

editorial director for games at the New York Times. And later crossword puzzle editor Peter

Gordon turns the tables on us and challenges us with a word play quiz. Ben I see you've been busy

keeping up with your writing on the language beat. I stumbled across your recent piece in

the Wall Street Journal column you have and it was about who day. So for me as an Ohioan I was

delighted to see that. Yeah that was definitely a fun wonder rights. Do you want to say a bit about

who day for our non Ohio listeners. Right so fans of the NFL team in Cincinnati the Bengals who

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