Aspirants

The Wife thought she had stumbled upon an egregious misspelling in a silly travel magazine – twice. Why? Simply because she had never read the word before. The word was "tony", and was used with both nearby Kirkland and Bellevue. Kirkland, according to a blurb, was a "tony burg"; Bellevue was a "tony town." She thought the author had meant "tiny", as in, well, tiny.

I had heard the word before in this use. What's interesting here is that the silly travel mag author (perhaps of both pieces, but only one was credited) just tipped his hand. He is not himself, you see, tony in any way. He is, rather, just the opposite. ( And what makes me say this? )