Kavya from Des Moines, Iowa, grew up calling striped little chipmunks or ground squirrels squinnies, a word she hasn’t heard even in Iowa City. The term does seem to be mostly Iowan, with written evidence from the 1970s onward, though it’s probably...
Should the Great Recession be talked and written about as a proper noun? Recessions tend to be vague in their scale and timelines, so it’s problematic to mention them as proper nouns. Perhaps the similarities in sound between Great Recession...
