This is the first post I started to write without a word in mind. It had to be about the coronavirus and COVID-19, of course — the situation is so overwhelmingly pervasive that this post started writing itself in my mind without even waiting for a word to come along. So I went ahead and …
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Soodraght
I've developed a very sudden fondness for Celtic languages. I've always found them interesting; any language that is able to rival English's notoriously low correlation between spelling and pronunciation earns my respect. But only as I began to research Manx, the official language of the tiny Isle of Man, was I struck by how uniquely …
Smultronställe
Last weekend I returned to my alma mater to attend a friend's graduation ceremony. Though it was a busy two days, without much of a chance to see any significant amount of the campus, it was dizzying how immediately and how naturally everything came back to me simply by being there. I've been out of …
Shōgakkō
Before I begin to write a post, I research the word to make sure that it's real and legitimate, and to make sure I have a thorough understanding of what it means before I begin to write about it. This one surprised me with a bit of a challenge, though, because information about it is …
Verbomania 