Your answer does not need to specify the state. State Nicknames” as of the time of this game’s posting will be accepted. states have multiple nicknames, official and unofficial, any answer meeting the above criteria and appearing the in the Wikipedia article “List of U.S. Your answer should be a single word, not a hyphenated word or multiword phrase. “Dixie” in “Heart of Dixie,” are not acceptable. The 35 entrants are abbreviated in the results as follows:Ĭhoose a two-syllable word that can fill the blank of the phrase “_ State” to form the nickname of one of the United States. These are some belts that I could really….belt! The Wine Belt (60) runs through the Mediterranean nations, the Beer Belt (60) covers Germany, Denmark, and the British Isles, and the Vodka Belt (70) is centered in Russia and the Slavic nations of Eastern Europe. Peter Broda added some of the alchohol belts (53) that divide Eurasia by beverage preference.
Matt Gaffney recently ran a contest puzzle on his website with the theme of geographical belts, as in borscht, corn, rust, etc. Addition highlights include body spray (80), pretzel bun (80), and hot toddies (73). LISTS: Broda, Diehl, and Shukan are keeping the sharedoc active. Word Spy posted the term procaffinating (72) which describes “delaying or postponing something until one has had one or more cups of coffee.” It’s a cute portmanteau that’s unlikely to get much traction, but we’ll see. charts recently with “Heroes (We Could Be)” featuring vocals from Tove Lo. Feldman’s current announcer is Sara Nics (50) who has a great name for crosswords though I’m not sure if she’s a household name even among public radio fans. I added a few more recent posts from the Supervocalics forum on Facebook: Annie Proulx (70), Hall of Justice (75), and Pillsbury Bake-Off (80).
NOTES: I’ve been listening to a lot of public radio podcasts lately including Michael Feldman’s Whad’ya Know, which isn’t available over the airwaves in my area.
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