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Query on 'Hunky Dory' Gets Me in Dutch
A few years ago, I was answering listeners' questions on a radio call-in show. Everything was hunky-dory until a caller stumped me by asking, "What's the origin of 'hunky-dory'?"
In my most mellifluous radio voice, I replied, "Uhhhhhh..."
What I meant to say, of course, was this: An old Dutch word for the goal or home base in a children's ...Read more







