In 2004, French writer Michel Dansel published The Train from Nowhere, a 233-page novel written entirely without verbs.
He even organized a funeral for the verb at Sorbonne in Paris, calling it the “invader, dictator, usurper of our literature.” No word where it’s interred.
hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia
n. fear of long words
The sound of Rice Krispies in other languages:
In 2002, pollster Kellyanne Conway found that most Americans could name the three elves but could not name any three of the nine sitting Supreme Court justices.
astrologaster
n. a foolish or petty astrologer
DORMITORY is an anagram of DIRTY ROOM.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
“Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.”
claustrophilia
n. the liking of small, enclosed spaces
deipnosophy
n. learned dinner conversation
antichthon
n. hypothetical second Earth on the opposite side of the sun
epopoean
adj. befitting an epic poet