Eight-year-old Violet in Zionsville, Indiana, grew up in Lexington, Kentucky, saying sprinkles more like sprankles, rhyming with rankles. On paper, the cupcake topping is spelled sprinkles, with an i; in speech, her family’s pronunciation is simply...
A Zionsville, Indiana, man recalls that when his mother issued a warning to her kids, she would add for emphasis: “And that’s the word with the bark on it.” The bark in this case refers to rough-hewn wood that still has bark on it—in other words...
