First Person: Little Rhody Lexicon

Photograph courtesy of the Bromberg Family Archive Not for nothing, whenever I return to Rhode Island over the decades I have lived overseas, my foreign language training is oddly useful. I appreciate how visitors to our state are often bemused and confused by our jargon. Even as a native, I find myself feigning polite comprehension, nodding in conversations until I...

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