Big Dog - 27 February 2023
A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over
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Can I Have a Cheeseburger All the Way to Lux?
Kelly Morse is from the Pacific Northwest and has lived in several parts of the United States. She moved to Norfolk, Virginia, a few years ago; there's a really great restaurant called Dumars. When you order cheeseburgers or hammockers or barbecue sandwiches, there's a little list of all of the additional condiments on the menu. So after a while, now when we go to Dumars, we say, can I have a cheeseburger all the way to Lux? And the server knows what we mean. But I've never heard that anywhere else except for Norfolk.
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