Hoosier Redux: The Hazards of Legal Jargon, i.e., Ipse Dixit
A short while ago I wrote a blog piece on the strange world of city-specific jargon, inspired by a popular coffee-and-dessert restaurant in Evanston, Illinois, whose name featured a word–HOOSIER–that has a far different (and derogatory) meaning to those of us from St. Louis. (Ironically, although I also mentioned a few classic Boston-specific terms. I…