#LeftoversLaws #14: Don't take home uneaten #FrenchFries. They never turn out right when you reheat them on a following day.

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#LeftoversLaws #21 - Cold pizza for breakfast: Yum! #leftovers

 

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Glowing with the brightness of the 🌞

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Found in the wild at the mall (slice of life)

 

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J.R.R. Tolkien's books never describe any Elves with pointed ears!

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Fun and Important Words: Highfalutin

Highfalutin is a word with mysterious origins.  Typically, the word means pompous, arrogant, haughty, pretentious or excessively ornate or bombastic, often in reference to a manner of speech.[1](1)  However, how such a word came to mean such things is not known definitively.  The alternative spelling of "hifalutin" doesn't offer any clues, either. It's common for dictionaries to claim that highfalutin is derived from the words "high" and "fluting".  Although this may make sense, it is actually not likely according to other sources.  Long before highfalutin was first recorded, another term meaning something similar already existed, "high flown".  It seems more likely that highfalutin is a corruption of high flown. I've used highfalutin from time to time.  However, my use of the work tends to carry an ironic tone.   Between the spellings, ngram shows that highfalutin is a lot more common than hifalutin, these days. The rise in use of highfalutin also seems to roughly coincide with the reduction of usage for the term high flown.

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