Ten For Today: Highfalutin
The Everly Brothers, Bobby Durham, Margaret Lewis, James Brown, Slade, The Notations, X-Ray Spex, The Teardrops, Pulp, The Upper Crust
For Christmas, I got one of those Merriam-Webster word-a-day calendars, and today’s is a good one.
Highfalutin is an unpretentious word that means pretentious. It’s a thing of beauty, because pretentious is a loaded word, wrapped up in notions of authenticity. And authenticity is even MORE loaded, because, the minute you start to think about or (worse) s…
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