Pickled Peppers - 5 August 2024

Pickled Peppers - 5 August 2024

Update: 2024-08-05
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Names don’t always mean what you think they mean. Main Street in San Francisco is named after businessman Charles Main, and Snowflake, Arizona, honors two guys named Snow and Flake. Plus, big words for small people: A colorful new book introduces kids to colossal words (including the word colossal!). And limber up those muscles — we have a trove of terrible tongue twisters to try! Also, invoice, a delicious quiz about food, stilliformcrepuscularmake the cheese more bindingskycapscofflawrutschyepizootic, and wrongs of passage.

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Pickled Peppers - 5 August 2024

Pickled Peppers - 5 August 2024

Hosted by Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett. Produced by Stefanie Levine.