June, You Beautiful Slatch

Here’s an old word that I think deserves reviving. It’s slatch. S-L-A-T-C-H. Slatch.

Sounds like high school slang for somebody you dislike.

Yeah, the slatches over there. No, this was a term that was used in the 17th and 18th century

To mean a brief respite or interval, like a short period of some kind of weather.

You know, we must wait for a slatch of fair weather.

Oh, yeah, that’s good. I see a need for that.

That’s a little lexical gap that we can fill.

I think so. I mean, you know, in Britain, sometimes they say bright intervals.

You know, they’re going to be bright intervals of sunshine, but a slatch of sunshine, I like.

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