Sherry from Ocean Beach, California, called after watching a PBS documentary about Appalachia and hearing people interviewed use a different pronunciation from the one she grew up with. Both Appa-LATCH-uh and Appa-LAY-shuh are common, and the choice...
party fishing n.— «In fact, they were nice enough not to cite a friend of mine who, while I was talking to troopers, freed a salmon from the end of my line, bonked it on the head, and used it to fill his three-fish limit for the day. That...
