New Year: Revival of a Good Thing.

It's a new year on the Salon, and this year I want to bring back a formerly regular Salon post, but with an added twist. I'm talking about Word of the Week! It's always been one of my favorite regular posts, and this year it will be extra easy, because I bought myself a day by day 2010 calendar of "Forgotten English" by Jeffrey Kacirk, so this way I can just post the extra interesting ones.

Today's admission:

Ackenpucky:
Any food mixture of unknown ingredients. West Virginia
- Harold Wentworth's American Dialect Dictionary

Can I get an "Ewwwwww"?! But such a good word. And one I think that could be used often. More often than one would wish.

Ode to An Hot Dog:

Oh my sweet Hot Dog,
It's sad but it's true,
Whilst eschewing meats,
My desires burned only for you.

How is it fair?
Surely I'm not at all lucky,
that my one favorite meat food
is most certainly ackenpucky.