In her article for Newsweek about her Vogue profile of Asma al-Assad, Joan Juliet Buck wrote:
Syria. The name itself sounded sinister, like syringe, or hiss.
Now some tweeters are having fun with that at #countriesbyvoguewriters:
Turkey. The name itself sounded like the main course at a Thanksgiving dinner.
Nah. Too easy.
Update: In fairness, the mocked phrase appeared not in Vogue but in Newsweek.
