Going the way of _boody_?

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Wed May 23 02:05:55 UTC 2012


People magazine quotes Anna Kendrick:

"[I bought] vintage linen bedding from Restoration Hardware. I feel so
_bougie_!"


The traditional spelling is _boojie_. But then, the use quoted isn't
traditional, either. Language-change in progress.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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