To sip a mint julep on the veranda of an evening may be a distinctly Southern activity, but the phrases “of an evening” or “of a morning,” meaning “in the evening” or “in the morning,” go back at least to the 1600s and the Diary of Samuel Pepys...
mersa n.— «Its full name is Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus. Commonly called “mersa,” the infection can spread through person to person contact or even though an object an infected person has touched, and it usually invades an open cut...