Do you think of a downpour as a "frog strangler"? Is a groundhog just another "whistle pig"? Maybe not, but we're exploring the strange, wonderful, and possibly endangered array of regional American slang with Ben Zimmer, executive editor of Vocabulary.com and language columnist for The Wall Street Journal.
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