We spent some time this morning wandering through the archives of Otherwordly.com. There are so many magnificent words -- we were going to pick a single word and use it as a starting point for this post, but it was tremendously difficult to select just one. We bookmarked a half-dozen or more (sturmfrei, cicatrize, latibule, and caim, among others) with the thought that we would begin a word-of-the-week (or just word-of-the-moment) feature herein. Our favorites are those that are used to express a complex emotion/situation, such as sillage, which we have mentioned previously. Miraculous, that so much can be captured in a few syllables.
Word of the moment, in honor of sleeping a bit longer on a Saturday:
dormiveglia (n.) the space that stretches between sleeping and awaking
Behold, the ancient and wise guinea pig,
who slumbers in his pile of hay.
It's much like sleeping in a pile of corn flakes: SNACKS.
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