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A Winter Dictionary (Bookshop|Amazon) by Paul Anthony Jones includes some words to lift your spirits. The verb whicken involves the lengthening of days in springtime, a variant of quicken, meaning “come to life.” Another word, breard, is...
Rosalind from Montgomery, Alabama, says her mother used to scold her for acting like a starnadle fool. The more common version of this term is starnated fool, a term that appears particular to Black English, and appears in the work of such writers...
The pink document for car ownership is mentioned in the Beach Boys’ song “Little Deuce Coupe”:
And if that ain’t enough to make you flip your lid
There’s one more thing, I got the pink slip, daddy