Simply said, there is nothing like a good petrichor to make a guy feel on top of the world. That depends, of course, on my computer's teraflop since I'm WFH and not interested in ghost kitchens. In case you were wondering, those are among the 5,000 new words contained in the 12th edition of the Merriam-Webster collegiate dictionary coming out this week.

Between you and me, I would count ghost kitchen as two words, but I'm not about to get into a disputation with Merriam or with Webster. Lexicographers can be a touchy bunch.

Speaking of lexicographers, I ran this information by my friends, Barney Funk and Porter Wagnalls, for their thoughts. The boys used to put out their own dictionaries until they discovered they could make more money selling aluminum siding. They suggested I take a sho

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