Sending someone a care package shows you care, of course. But the first care packages were boxes of food and personal items for survivors of World War II. They were from the Committee for American Remittances to Europe, the acronym for which is CARE...
When Matt was growing up in western North Carolina, he heard the word gaum, also spelled gom, meaning a mess. Someone misbehaving might be described as gauming around, or something was gaumed up, meaning messed up, or a person was dismissed as...
Sondra, calling from Columbus, Georgia, remembered her mother saying don’t be messing and gauming with that, usually about food. The phrase means dawdling, puttering, or getting into trouble and is heard primarily in the US South. The gauming part...