Just ike New York: I was wondering about a similar meaning with a geographic name, the maritime expression, "all Bristol fashion".
From To Kill a Mockingbird, there is the character Boo Radley, which being an older use of Boo, more likely is a variant on Beau. I wonder if Capta...
Airplane dope (from at least WW-I, for the woozy feeling from prolonged use) was originally cellulose acetate. I was used to fill in the space betwee...
One reason for counterclockwise rotation of US merry-go-rounds is that the rider would try to catch the brass ring with the right hand. Judging by pi...
Horatory names: I am still catching up from those days in which I was Forbidden!, so this goes back to September. I had a great uncle with a strange...
Ear for wine Groceries, Dallas and north Texas: GROSS rees. Texas dialects frequently deletes phonemes or entire syllables, especially the terminal...
Cardwell's Law of Voluntary Associations: "Who will work, gets overworked". Not to be confused with Cardwell's phenomenon: "Two-way traffic always me...
Thanks for getting my "forbidden" status removed. Pleasure and education has returned! Hole to China: When they were drilling the mohole (to the ...
30: As one who can still hand-set type, I learned it as indicating to the typesetter than a 30 point slug (bar of metal too low to print) goes there ...
Hat: Dallas, TX, '30s and '40s; stocking cap, although I haven't heard it used in years, Lower Mainland (Vancouver, BC), '70s; toque, pronounced tuuk...
Ron Draney: There is no term for a young great anteater (which prefers termites), but another ant eating endentate, the armadillo, has pups, so maybe...
Denial: Of course, the related phrase is "Denial is not just a river in Africa." But another response to denial is "Watch out for the hippos and cro...
My objection to abandoning anatomical eponyms is that a proper name is the same in any language, whereas the substitution is Anglophone arrogance. I ...
I distinctly remember Jerry Colonna macronize(?) both o. He also referred to himself as a bargain counter tenor, leaving it to the audience where the...
Petty officer: Roughly equivalent to Non-Commissioned Officer in other branches. However, a CPO is right up there with a master sergeant or even the...