Wednesday, July 25, 2012
FANCYPANTS:
The New York Times would like you to know that
highfalutin
is preferred to
highfaluting
.
No one is really sure where the word came from
-- probably an American folk derivation --
though it appears to have taken off in the 1850s, and peaked in the post-WWII era
.
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