Tironian Notes Cicero's secretary invented shorthand, and Dublin still parks by it
Finds
- soporiferous A sermon so sleep-inducing that the preacher had to shriek
- Villein The villein worked a plot; the villain plotted
- Evert To turn inside out — as sea stars do with their stomachs
- Breviloquent A twelve-letter, four-syllable word for using few words
- Macilent One adjective for a thin man and a thin argument, on the books since before 1425
- Obganiate To annoy someone by saying the same thing again. And again.
- Solivagant A word for wandering alone, in writing since 1621
- Tironian Notes Cicero's secretary invented shorthand, and one of his symbols is still in Unicode
- Expiscate To fish out — the verb for finding something by patient investigation