Regarding yesterday's word: BAYOU
Surely you remember the Carpenters song "Jambalaya (on the Bayou)"??? Surely?
Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and fillet gumbo
For tonight, I'm a-gonna see my, my cher au mi-oh
Pick guitar, fill fruit jar and be gay-oh
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the Bayou
Of course you do. Stop pretending. You're humming it now, aren't you? Admit it.
This would be a spoiler if it wasn't just plain wrong. It's a
Southern term so it's extremely un-Yankee.
Unless you refer to the entire US as "Yankee", in which case it is a spoiler. Tut tut.
Edit, just noticed that I missed
@Proto 's post on the subject.