@grammargirl Cool word! It reminded me of some favorite #books when I was a teenager, the “Betsy-Tacy” series by Maud Hart Lovelace.

The stories were based on the author’s youth in the early 1900s in Minnesota. She loved writing and language, and in high school during a phase of trying to be glamorous she added foreign words to her speech. Evenings with friends became “soirées,” but I have a feeling she’d have loved “salonnières”!