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    The new HH book AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 WORDS is OUT NOW! The book tells the stories behind 80 different words and phrases whose origins lie on the world map—so here’s a quick round-the-world thread of some of the etymological tales you’ll find inside...

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    FOR SPISSMUS THIS YEAR I WOULD LIKE SANTA TO BRING ONE OF THESE

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  3. A SPICULA is a single needle-like projection of frost or ice.

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  4. If a piece of fabric BANDONS, then it shrinks unevenly when washed or dried, and so is left with inflexible wrinkles or bands across it.

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  5. ‘Bana’ meant ‘killer’, ‘slayer’, or ‘murderer’ in Old English. It’s from there that poisonous plants like WOLFSBANE, HENBANE and DOGBANE take their names.

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    ‘Academic birdsong’ has a beautiful ring to it 🐥

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  7. If the weather is DRUMMY, then it’s misty or overcast.

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    Welcome to my lexicon, Spissmus, you darling little pointy mouse. I squeeze the end of your schnozz very gently. Come, sit on my shoulder and tell me your pointy secrets.

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  10. A BOONFELLOW is a convivial person or a friend who can always be relied upon for a good time.

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  11. JARGON originally meant ‘birdsong’.

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  12. A CONVOCATION is a group of people called together for a specific purpose. It’s also the collective term for a group of eagles.

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  13. SPISSMUS is a Norwegian name for the shrew. It literally means ‘pointy mouse’.

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  14. PALINDROME literally means ‘running back’.

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  15. Word of the Day: CODNOPPER (n.) a fool

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    It’s only a limousine if it comes from the Limousin region of France; otherwise it’s just a sparkling long boi car

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  17. If the sky is LAMPFUL, then it’s full of stars.

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  18. No one for sure why people who are satirised are said to be LAMPOONED. One theory claims the word comes from ‘lampons’, an old French word meaning ‘let us drink’—in which case, such satires might have originally been the subject of scurrilous drinking songs.

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  19. Also known as an ‘anthropogenic’ cloud, a HOMOGENITUS is a cloud produced by human activity.

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  20. A LINDABRIDES is a female companion or lover.

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  21. LIMOUSINE cars are apparently named after a style of hood once popular in the Limousin region of France, which the fabric hood on the back of early models of Limousine cars was supposed to resemble.

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