excrescence

If the pronoun police of Wisconsin’s Kiel Area School District were just another woke excrescence on American education, they would be merely local embarrassments.

One British news report from the era featured an interview with a bloke on the street who described it as “an abortion — it’s an excrescence.”

The ceiling was unbreached, the man said, and added, a little starchily, that the excrescence clearly was what it appeared to be.

These excrescences can’t be good for the tree, but they sure make it distinctive.

“Do you take this excrescence to be your husband?”