[T]he philologist may well refuse to accept a body of triliteral roots, developed on a highly artificial and uniform plan, as the ultimate fact in Semitic lexicography.

1609 (revised 1625), Francis Bacon, De Sapientia Veterum ('Wisdom of the Ancients')

If she slid, she feared her feet would slip out from under her, and she would end up on her hinnerdale. “Stop,” Tyler said. “You're going to kill yourself skating like that.” He let go of one of her hands so he could skate beside her.

The use of the term American youth culture may invoke images of urban hipsters, suburban wiggas, cheerleaders, graffiti writers, skater kids, youth of the African Diaspora with oversized pants slung low on the hips, or lesbian zine writers, but rarely does such a term invoke images of girls donning burkas, even if they are also in sequined prom dresses.