North Texas
n.— «He’s already got the next one well under way. It’s going to be a concept dance album, called Urban Sprawl in North Texas. “North Texas is what I call Alberta sometimes.”» —“Stakes are high for rapper” by Robert Everett-Green in Edmonton, Alberta Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada) May 18, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
The words tough, through, and dough all end in O-U-G-H. So why don’t they rhyme? A lively new book addresses the many quirks of English by explaining the history of words and phrases. And: have you ever been in a situation where a group makes...
When there’s no evening meal planned at home, what do you call that scramble to cobble together your own dinner? Some people apply acronyms like YOYO — “you’re on your own” — or CORN, for “Clean Out your Refrigerator...