Sufficiently Suffonsified (rebroadcast) - 31 Jan. 2011

<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium;"> <div style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 8px; background-color: #ffffff;"> <p>[This episode first aired February 27, 2010.]<br /><br />What's in a pet's name? Martha and Grant swap stories about how they came up with names for their dogs. Also this week: Have you ever been called a "stump-jumper"? How about a snicklefritz? And what's the last word in the dictionary? Depending on which dictionary you consult, it might be "zythum," "zyzzyva," "zyxomma," or "zyxt."<br /><br />Sometimes the process of naming a pet takes a while. The hosts talk about how their dogs' names evolved.<br /><br />A native Japanese speaker is mystified by the expression "happy as a clam." In Japanese, she says, if you had a good night's sleep you might say you "slept like a clam" or "slept like mud." So why do English speakers think clams are content?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><br />What's the very last word in the dictionary? Depending on which dictionary you're using, you may see "zythum," "zyzzyva," "zyxomma," or "zyxt."<br /><br />This week's word puzzle from Quiz Guy Greg Pliska involves taking a word, adding an "i" to the beginning, as if creating an Apple product, to get an entirely new word. For instance: "This is how Steve Jobs begins a card game."<br /><br />A caller from Princeton, Texas, remembers that after a satisfying meal, her late father used to push back from the table and say, "I am sufficiently suffonsified. Anything more would be purely obnoxious to my taste. No thank you." What heck did he mean by that?<br /><br />A Vermonter says he's sometimes called a "stump-jumper." Should he be flattered or insulted?<b