Sublime

Why do we say that someone’s “worth their salt”? Because in the ancient world salt was such a valuable commodity that we used to pay people in it (and this is why you also get a salary).

Our highly networked and complex world has given rise to the need for new, hybrid words. As a result, portmanteaus—a linguistic mash-up of two words that means “a large trunk opening in two equal parts” in French—have become a modern necessity. Portmanteaus are not new; Lewis Carroll popularized the use of the term in his book Through the Looking G

a voice you might describe as a human computer imitating the sounds of an excited dog, crossed with a dinging microwave.

clyster

flâneur (one who strolls, observes and enjoys),

The first is the weirdest and appears to be consistent across all traditional dictionary publishers: no one starts writing a dictionary in A. Ever.

merlon,

Darley asked Poppy as they galumphed

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