Mignon FogartyMar 6

Some people call these the same thing, and other people have different names for them — and it can depend on where you live!

That's just one of the cool things you'll learn this week from my chat with Joan Houston Hall, former editor of the Dictionary of American Regional English (often called DARE).

WATCH: https://youtu.be/F6dYztdHnG8?si=fbziIA7D-tXJBrwQ

READ: https://grammar-girl.simplecast.com/episodes/1165/transcript

LISTEN: https://pod.link/173429229

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(I call them both a spatula.)

Show threadMax Leibman
@grammargirl I grew up (Nebraska) calling the both a spatula. The parody “Spatula City” commercial in the film ‘UHF’ would agree. Nowadays, I mostly call the one on the right a flipper, just to be understood by my wife’s family.
Mar 6 at 6:35pmWeb
Show threadPomegranate_StewMar 6

@maxleibman @grammargirl

Funny. We called them spatula (left) and turner (right) where I grew up in Iowa. I never heard the right one called a spatula until I moved to Nebraska.