Hillary in Woodstock, Vermont, grew up saying mayonnaise as MY-oh-nayz, just like her mother did. That pronunciation is real and valid, though uncommon. The French-derived word has never fully anglicized, so dictionaries and dialect surveys record...
After our conversation about long-forgotten items left in books, a volunteer at the Norman Williams Public Library in Woodstock, Vermont, writes to say that he found an old letter to the Tooth Fairy tucked inside a donated book. The letter is from...
Larovers to catch meddlers, layovers for meddlers, and many variations thereof, are among the comically evasive things parents say when their kids ask, “What’s that?” It essentially means, “shoo.” This is part of a...
