It probably started in poetry; almost everything does.

“Permanecí sentado, muy quieto, escuchando cómo iba aquietándose la tarde por la…”

“Oh sure, I'm her husband. That's what the record says. I'm the three white step…”

“The stores along Hollywood Boulevard were already beginning to fill up with ove…”

“I'm in a wild mood tonight. I want to go dance in the foam. I hear the banshees…”