The X (Xeric) Files
We’re almost at the end of the alphabet, and AUM have found Verandah Magazine a word that we are definitely filing for future use…
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Little thin tiny ones, ones that squiggle and squirm…
Vermicular, our Word of the Week from AUM PR is from the latin vermiculus, a dimunitive of vermis – worm. Over the centuries it’s…
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Wait on – those fibres are behaving in a transilient way
Verandah Magazine’s Word of the Week this week comes from the Latin, transilient, and translates as jumping across or passing over. Although our friends…
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Shhhhh, it’s a susurration of sparrows…
Latin. Greek. Lithuanian, German, Old Church Slavonic, Sanskrit – susurration’s been with us since the early 1400’s – originally from the Latin susurrationem, and…
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Quiddity’s an oddity and no quibbling about that
Quiddity has absolutely nothing to do with ‘quidditch’, the wizardly sport played on broomsticks in the Harry Potter universe. Quiddity, Verandah Magazine’s Word of…
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Listen up – she’s lissom
Our Word of the Week from our friends at AUM PR is ‘lissom’. New Zeland writer Tui Allen is one of the few writers…
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