What do badgers have to do with rhetoric?

Every couple of months a new word or two in my very mild accent proves indecipherable to locals. There has been a lot of ‘badgers?’ lately, as I talk about this project, but I cracked up when ‘breeders’ got misheard as ‘burritos’. Anyway. I mentioned on Twitter a couple of weeks ago that my students in RHE306: Rhetoric and Writing class (the introductory …