I’m pretty sure lagniappe is either a relatively slow gorilla or the term describing the way my old iPad choked on the new map.
I loved finding out that the bit of cloth on the back of a sailor or chair had a name, and that it was an unrelentingly cool one.
Who can honestly say that they haven’t been looking for any excuse to use the word antimacassar after learning it? That’s right. Nobody.
A theological friend of mine recently used “palimpset” in an off-handedly showoffy way. Thanks to FL, I was able to out-snob him.