The Room in the Dragon Volant
Fun early mystery. Kind of like Don Quixote, in that reading it now is a bit tough because the conventions of a mystery story have tightened so much.
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Ichor – for when you need your bodily fluids to be more god-like
This one is delicious.
colloquy – for when you need to elevate your conversations
from col– together + –loquium speaking, from loqui to speak
- A talking together; a conversation, dialogue. Also, a written dialogue.
- A meeting for conference.
- Church blah blah.
All the modern dictionaries mention that it’s specific to elevated speech/conversation. Interesting that “colloquial” is used to mean common speech.
