Author Archives: mike_words

the loss of comfort in “solastalgia”; how a Celtic tribe became the countercultural “bohemian”

a load of “washing”; unburying “mausoleum”

special relationships with “parasocial”; “Blimey,” I’ll be danged

knowing about “perimath”; bravo for “olé”

there’s always room in your “dessert stomach”; exploring with “hooch”

the masculinity (?) of “bronouns”; a rosy history of “julep”

the rarity of “Scorigamis”; a case for “tweezers”

the sudden and overwhelming appearance of “flash robs”; the probably non-magical origins of “gimmick”

waking up on the wrong side of “social jetlag”; the cloistered origins of “lobby”

the declining value of “skimpflation”; dancing around “tarantula” and “tarantella’