words like “swell”

I’m on Twitter a little more these days because I cleaned up my feed with this tool and now I get much, much less angry politics and more delightful content like this:

As a word for a young pig, the word PIGLET only dates back to the mid 1800s. Before then, a young pig might be called a HOGLING (14thC), a PORKET (1550s), a HOG-BABE (1600s), or a GRUNTLING (1680s). pic.twitter.com/MjlaY8c8lN

— Haggard Hawks ???????? (@HaggardHawks) June 19, 2019

(That account is full of great word facts, such as why a type of paper is called “foolscap“, something I have wondered over a lifetime of reading British novels.)

Tysmake is pretty much the reason I make cookies. Also, I think America needs to adopt the practice of solarfi. 

Sometimes I want to learn German, if only because there are words like this:

smultronställe: (n.) lit. “place of wild strawberries”; a special place discovered, treasured, returned to for solace and relaxation; a personal idyll free from stress or sadness.

(Via my old fav, even cleveland.)