No offence- it was on a cat site (of all things) that I visited last night. I wil work it into conversation over the dinner table tonight. I will sign in from hospital.
That would be “will”.
It’s Finnish, not English, but it’s cool, so I had to share.
Pilkunnussija: A person who believes it’s their destiny to stamp out all spelling and punctuation errors.
In the Milwaukee airport, right after you get past the security screening, there’s an area that’s officially labeled as the “recombobulation area”.
Internecine. I encountered it yesterday in Greil Marcus’ book “When That Rough God Goes Riding” about Van Morrison. Never heard it before, but Marcus is usually very verbose and I always learn new adjectives when reading him. Before looking it up, I thought that it sounds like a portmanteau of “internet” and “magazine”, but in review it would be an unfortunate name for a tech mag.
Callipygian
From an old column by the Master:
https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/758/what-does-callipygian-mean/
There is a book (and movie) called The Internecine Project.
There is also steatopygian. There should also be osteopygian, but I don’t think there is.
I just learned “auscultation” - “the action of listening to sounds from the heart, lungs, or other organs, typically with a stethoscope, as a part of medical diagnosis.”
It’s also used in geology, to describe a rock mass that has not been transported from where it was formed.
The opposite, and my contribution to this thread, is allochthonous: a rock mass that has been moved from its bedrock (carried downstream by a river, or moved by a glacier, for example).
My new (very old as it turns out) is Yclept- /iˈklept/ and loosely means “also known as” . "I am swampspruce, yclept “easily catches fire”. World Wide Words: Yclept more info here.
boustrophedon- turning like oxen in plowing (or mowing a lawn in contraflow adjacent rows); designating or of an ancient form of writing in which the lines run alternately from right to left and left to right.
“inspissate” – to make thicker
“caoutchouc” – natural rubber
Palimpsest - a manuscript page which has had the original text erased and which has been reused.
Weird aside - where I learned the word: from a comment about the meaning of the song The Bewlay Brothers, by David Bowie:
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Also used in fantasy / graphic novels, a rock creature / Gollum. In the original Greek, that could have been a fantasy wood/water/fire creature, but in fantasy I’ve only seen it used for rock people.
To me, in English autochthonous (Greek) implies “originating where found”; indigenous (Latin) implies “first”. As “the indigenous people of Europe were the autochthonous people of Africa”