Ruthie faces the unfamiliar, again

The One Big Happy in my comics feed today: Rockefellers / rocky fellows. How was Ruthie to know her grandmother was using a proper name? And fellersĀ is a familiar dialect variantĀ for fellows – and an old one (Americans have been labeling feller an “impropriety” or “provincialism”, with an “excrescent” r, since at least 1795, according … Continue reading Ruthie faces the unfamiliar, again