New Addition to the Travel Lexicon: ‘Toeing the Line’
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 06.11.07 | 11:40 AM ET
In our ongoing quest to chronicle the comings and goings in the travel lexicon we bring you “toeing the line,” which The Atlantic’s Word Fugitive columnist Barbara Wallraff has declared the winner in a contest to determine “a word to describe the moment of undignified vulnerability that people in airport security lines experience when they have to take off their shoes.” Dick Engel of Bark River, Michigan submitted the winning entry, though I liked many other suggestions better. Among them: Shoemiliation, unshoddenfreude, pedrified, JimmyChoogrined, steparation anxiety and pedanoia.
Related on World Hum:
* New Travel Word of the Day: ‘Glamping’
* Don’t be a Touron!: New Additions to the Travel Lexicon
* Is It Time To Retire ‘Ugly American’ From the Travel Lexicon?
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
