
TODAY'S WORD is emanita, from the Carter Family song "Wildwood Flower:" "I will twine, I will mingle my raven black hair / With the roses so red and the lilies so fair / And the myrtle so bright with its emerald hue / The pale emanita and the hyssop so blue," with thanks to Lynn Wolf for the suggestion.
WEDESDAY'S WORD was ju-ju eyeball. It is commonly recognized as a look that gives bad karma, but in the Beatles' "Come Together," it probably has the British slang meaning of magical or mystical. Example: "Here come old flat top / He come groovin' up slowly / He got ju-ju eyeball / He one holy roller / He got hair down to his knee / Got to be a joker / He just do what he please" from the Beatles's song "Come Together." The example is from Sherry Jones McCoy.
'Mom Jeans'
The Stroller's girls have moved up from the kids' sections of stores to the sizes 0 and 1 in women's sections. That makes taking them shopping more fun for the mom, because the kids finally can browse on their own without being assisted -- leaving the mom free to browse as well.
In a store supposedly for cool teenagers and young women (true -- nothing there appealed to Mama), they encountered a display for "Mom Jeans" for $59 a pair. Since when did "mom jeans" go from being something teenagers and others made fun of to something they wanted?
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