Goldilocks
attrib.— «This is the hot spot for methylmercury.…You can consider it the Goldilocks area, where sulfides for methylation are “just right.”» —“South Florida Scientists Investigate Toxin Poisoning Fish, Wildlife” by Cyril T. Zaneski Knight-Ridder Aug. 22, 1999. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Enthusiastic book recommendations! Martha’s savoring the biography of Alexander von Humboldt, the 19th-century explorer, polymath, and naturalist who revolutionized our understanding of nature and predicted the effects of human activity on...
A caller who grew up in Wisconsin says his spouse, who’s from Florida, teases him for such things as pronouncing bagel like “BEG-el” and dagger as “DEG-ger.” They’re just products of his isolect, the regional variants from his particular dialect of...