crimalien

crimalien
 n.— «The venomous rhetoric: A popular Boston talk show host calls them “crimaliens.”…Should Massachusetts allow illegal immigrants the right to attend state colleges at in-state tuition rates it won’t be the end of the world.» —“Putting a few issues on the table” by Jeff Adair Framingham Tab (Mass.) May 12, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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Blessing Box (episode #1613)

Is there such a thing as a “neutral” accent, and if so what does it sound like? And that quirk in the way southern Californians talk about freeways. They’ll say things like take the 405 and get on the 8. Why the definite article...