My word processor changes the form of dashes to something longer sometimes – becomes —. I change it back sometimes. I’m obsessed by punctuation. I bought and read a book on the semi-colon, and love using Oxford commas. This article on Mental Floss outlines the dash or hyphen, the en-dash, and the em-dash (both named …
This Mental Floss article on thirteen archaic terms for burn-out caught my attention. For some reason. If I have to pick a favourite it’d be “Overcark” an “obsolete term from the 14th century means “overwork.” According to the OED, it was created by combining the word over with the word cark, meaning “that which burdens …
You can’t use this for Scrabble, but here is a Japanese word for comfort eating.
Susurration. I always enjoy encountering a word that I’ve never read or heard before. Susurration. Lexico.com provides this meaning: Whispering or rustling. ‘the susurration of the river’ ‘It settled to the ground with a soft susurration like stirring leaves.’ ‘Something beautiful but so far away-like the music of a faraway violin or the susurration of …
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