The Blogging Lexicon

What in the lexicon is that? 

The first few times I hear this term this image that popped into my head: a vision of a giant fly dressed up like Sir Elton. The culture of 501's frontage closings, perhaps? 

However, neither of these squared with pictures and descriptions of "being fly," often about the former "waity Katy," now the Duchess of Cambridge, as being "so fly."   

Now, I suppose I could have asked my fellow Patch.com blogger what it meant. But that would mean admitting how un-hip I am to someone in my hometown.  (Like that isn't what I just did in that last sentence).

So, I called my alma mater, the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM). As Richard Norquist on About.com defines lexicon as (1) The collection of words--the internalized dictionary—that every speaker of the language has or (2) a stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style. Surely, anyone there answering the phone would know.

She did not.

So, I popped over to the UK, to Mrs. Modern Country Style's blog to ask the bloggess, Sarah, what the term means. Groovy, perhaps?  

She wrote right back:

"Fly just means great!! Funny, I didn't realise it wasn't a common word!! Occasionally I use a word that's very English without realising how English I sound!!"

Interested in authentic English country style? Sarah's blog is  a real treat: http://www.moderncountrystyle.blogspot.com/