Deadmonton
n.— «Jerry Desjarlais hadn’t been born when Edmonton Oilers superstar Wayne Gretzky was traded away 18 years ago.…The city was also struggling with its own financial problems and suffered from a national image in which it was often mockingly referred to as Deadmonton.» —“New generation cheers on Oilers” by Katherine Harding Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada) June 4, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks (Bookshop|Amazon) is about the foodways and folkways passed down through five generations of a Black Appalachian family. The book, by novelist and...
Courtney in Anchorage, Alaska, and her teenage son disagree: Should that collection of music be called a mixtape or a mixed tape? The former is far more common, and reflects that linguistic process known as lenition or “softening,” in which the -ed...