Jeff in Knoxville, Tennessee, is the only one in his family who remembers his grandmother’s card-table exclamation: For crying in a bucket! Whenever she got a bad hand in a game of crazy eights or king’s corners, she’d shout that instead of swearing...
Amanda Kruel from Knoxville, Tennessee, wrote to say that ten years after learning French, she was studying German and her mind would jump from German to French, instead of English, when she was at a loss for a word. This is known as faulty language...
