A troupe of truly terrific terminology...

 Happy 23rd everyone!  For this month's amalgam of words, I was a bit tempted to go with a Christmas theme.  But after the notorious anti-Christmas music post and last night's glimpse into the depths of Ty's Christmas past and present, I think that I'm about Christmassed out——and before it's even officially started at that. In any case, unless I have some real epiphanies in the next 48 hours, consider this my gift to you.


Incessancy.  While we're usually more acquainted with incessancy's adjectival/adverbial form, incessancy is a really fun way to talk about someone's ability to do things without stopping.  Though the ancient Latins were once again probably not thinking of this when they created the word (as if that sort of thing actually happens), incessancy has a lovely string of intervocalic alliteration that just makes it so much fun to say.  Count those 'sss' sounds: in-c-e-ss-an-c-y.  Better yet, try overemphasizing the S's (how should I punctuate that one?).  It makes you sound like a snake——you little parselmouth you.


Frugal.  There are a lot of ways to say that someone is cheap: tight, thrifty, stingy, parsimonious, miserly; but the only one that really makes being cheap actually sound good is frugal (for some reason thrifty always sounded too close to swift and it just didn't work for me).  I highly recommend its use when describing someone you know who, though capable of transforming a lump of coal into a diamond via the extreme pressure of their rectal cavity (in other words, tight), you nevertheless want to cast in a favorable light.  Then maybe the next time you hear them complain about money you can recommend a career in the diamond business.


Glue.  This month's representative of the onomatopoeia club, glue is a truly awesome word.  Just say it with me: glooooooo.  First of all, g and l are interesting letters to put together and, when followed by an endlessly extendable long u, produce an effect which sounds like a gooey adhesive agent binding them all to one another.  Plus, it brings back all sorts of great memories from elementary school and beyond——glue in stick form!


Lore.  I don't know about you, but when I say, hear, see, or even think of the word lore, all sorts of images come to mind.  The common thread amongst them all is that of dusty, old tomes filled with the forgotten knowledge of the ancients tucked away in some dimly-lit room crafted of stone that has lain undisturbed for centuries.  So much better than just saying "old stuff."  Fellow historians take note: lore is a much cooler word than history (sorry Greek language, but Old English wins on this one) and, better yet, cool people who use cool words like lore refer to historians as lore-masters.  Okay, so the only person who I've ever seen use that term was J.R.R. Tolkien——but his awesomeness and 10th degree black belt in linguistics gives him the coolness of at least a hundred men.  As such, after I get my PhD, you may thereafter refer to me as Loremaster...