There’s a language maven who says you’re a traitor to America if you don’t pronounce a word a certain way. He might be joking.

Recent Posts

• The front yard is popping!
• I need to figure out how to roll them better but these pretzels were at least soft and tasted like pretzels, unlike the last recipe I tried. The difference: brown sugar instead of white and a dip of the twisted pretzels in boiling baking soda water before going in the oven.
• That one particular Minnesota respondent to the Dictionary of American Regional English survey.
• Took another walk around a city I love before heading back to San Diego.
• Revisiting the old neighborhood. All different, all the same, if that’s possible.

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