Or do I have a head injury?

[resonant]

You know, the longer I spend in post-menopausal word loss --

"if you don't live in a country with an active -- aw, hell, I've lost the word -- not royalty, not monarchy, not oligarchy, the thing where some people have better blood than other people --"

"Aristocracy?"

"Thank you!"

-- the more familiar it looks to me when Ray Kowalski says "the Northwest Areas" or starts the Miranda statement and then loses his place and trails off.

(Due South content in 2022 is thanks to fox, who KNOWS WHY.)

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[isis]

I have been doing this (and, oddly, 'refrigerator' is one of the words frequently subject to this temporary word-loss) ever since well before menopause. My husband marvels that I am a killer crossword solver and yet forget ordinary words fairly often.

[resonant]

I lose "aristocracy" quite a lot, and also, ironically, "articulate."