Ragrowster
'The dog thought this was fun, and ragrowstered with her under and on the water all the way to Leaning...
Dang useful
Dang handy for walkabout, this is a Punjabi word for 'walking stick or staff'. Rory Stewart carried one as he...
Nuannaarpoq
Can a word change a life? This Eskimo word changed mine and made me curious about a people who could...
Breathturn (Atemwende)
A word coined by the poet Paul Celan. Edmund de Waal mentions that ‘Celan cannot find words to fit together...
Orographic
I learned some fine landscape words from reading Barry Lopez’s Arctic Dreams. Orographic means ‘relating to mountains, especially as regards...
The rustling wind
A se is a 25 stringed instrument like a zither, so I like the doubling up of this character to...
A bask of crocodiles
Delightful collective noun this, suggesting a harmless creature soaking up the sun on a warm mud bank. Just don't tread...
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