Tuesday, July 5, 2011

The sum of summer

You can say "Spring has sprung," and you could say, "Fall has fallen," but you can't really say, "Summer has summed," or, "Winter has ... winted."

On the other hand, you can use "summer" and "winter" as verbs meaning "to live somewhere," as in, "We summered at Martha's Vineyard and wintered in the Mediterranean." (I guess those are verbs for rich people.) But you can't say, "I springed in England and I falled in New England." You could say, "I fell in New England," but that would just mean you were klutzy in the Northeastern United States.

Anyway, summer has summed and I'm summering here in Lynden.

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