I blame Noah Webster

1.5l bottles of water, 60s soul, apples, baking to the strokes, basslines, blank books, bookshelves, candy cigarettes, candy corn, chaplin films, chlorine, chocolate-covered pretzels, chocolate-dipped pineapple, colloquialisms, composition notebooks, dead russian authors, endorphins, ephemera, erasers on pencils, family trees, gin and tonic, good hair days, haight-ashbury chic, haikus, idioms, language described as salty, late night driving music, laughable t-shirts, library books, lists, loud late-night music, low tide, luna lovegood, marginalia, moo moos of oxford, motown, music magazines, necco wafers, nicknames, northern accents, old cemeteries, paper good raids, penguin classics, pimms o'clock, pineapple, pork fried rice, postcards, potatoes (mashed), red nails, root beer numbed lips, shakespearean insults, smell of picture books, smell of salt water, summer rain, sweater-weather, tea, that luggage smell, the smell of newsprint, troy what?, wanderlust