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Chris -- 2025-05-10
This would be a funny substitution in the right story, but in this case it was a report on a cupcake company’s new location, so I doubt the meteorological reference was intentional:
“It’s been a long and windy road for the Rocklin-based company.” http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/pa … d=19748992
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I’ve actually heard this spoken aloud, and the people I’ve heard say “windy” pronounced “waɪndɪ” as in a corruption of the word winding, not the word for high winds. Might be an example of buffy-speak.
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