A couple of weeks ago, I was speaking with Sam about mis-heard song lyrics (see fun link on the right to Kiss This Guy - a great site for such things). I was telling him that there are a number of people who think that our national anthem starts "Jose, can you see?" Sam then remembered a passage from a Ramona book he had read a few years ago in which Ramona asks what "dawnzerly" means. I myself was confused as to why Sam was bringing this up. He told me that after inquiring as to Jose's view in the first lyric, some people then hear the next line of the anthem as "By the dawnzerly light."
We have now adapted this adjective into our day-to-day language, most often by paying the compliment, "You're looking rather dawnzerly today."
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