Delightful Linguistic Distraction of the Day:
Though it's obscure & obsolete, English has a word for the moment icicles fall from the roof of a house
Stiricide. Which comes very simply from the Latin words for "icicle" & "to fall"
Yet so specific, so delicate, so strange, so lovely
Crack. Thunk.
Though it's obscure & obsolete, English has a word for the moment icicles fall from the roof of a house
Stiricide. Which comes very simply from the Latin words for "icicle" & "to fall"
Yet so specific, so delicate, so strange, so lovely
Crack. Thunk.
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I used it in a poem to describe one persons love staying the same, but slowly melting, while another's flowed away.
The famous psychic Edgar Cayce said coffed is the healthiest thing for you but putting milk in it is toxic