LETHOLOGICA is the inability to remember a word or name.

Virginia Woolf took her own life 82 years ago on this day. Here is the beautiful final letter she left for her husband, my great-uncle Leonard Woolf 💜

Etymologically, the words SALAD, SALSA, SAUCE, SALAMI, SAUSAGE, and SALSIFY all ultimately derive from the Latin for salt.

Women’s rights are NOT negotiable. Women and girls EVERYWHERE deserve to live a life of dignity and respect. Period. Are you with us?

Word of the Day: AUTOMATARY (adj.) self-driven, automatic; descriptive of something that moves or works on its own

People don’t talk about how hard it is to be want to be there for someone that won’t let you in.

Word of the Day: PERSPICULATIVE (adj.) visible, able to be seen

An AIGICOLE is a creature that lives on a beach.

The best relationships are with people you don’t need to please. People who accept you without judgment. Who remind you of the person you’re becoming, not who you were.

BREAKING NEWS The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2023 #NobelPeacePrize to Narges Mohammadi for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all. #NobelPrize

A group of puffins is known as a CIRCUS.

A SEMORDNILAP is a word or phrase that forms a different word or phrase when read in reverse—like ‘stressed’ and ‘desserts’, or ‘diaper’ and ‘repaid’. The word SEMORDNILAP itself is a semordnilap: it was coined by reversing the letters of the word PALINDROMES.

Word of the Day: CADDLING (v., adj.) worrying, having ones mind occupied; troublesome, annoying

Sometimes the best thing to do is to stop talking about it and let it be. Let the emotions fade. Let the body relax.

Etymologically, the word STAIRCASE refers to the opening in a building that contains a flight of stairs, not the stairs themselves. In that sense, the ‘case’ in staircase is the same word for a container or surrounding framework as found in the likes of SUITCASE and CASEMENT.

Word of the Day: WAKERIFE (adj.) unable to sleep

Word of the Day: RAMMACK (v.) to search frantically for something you can’t find

A FROSTMARK is a noticeable mark or shape that appears in the frost on an area of frozen ground, indicating where some former structure, such as a wall or ditch, once stood. In archaeology, frostmarks can even be used to locate ancient features now lost beneath the surface.

Word of the Day: HARPOCRATIC (adj.) silent, making no sound

📄It's not just a paper. It's the right to Get married to whom you love Be who you are Live in dignity and respect Many countries still have discriminatory laws that criminalize consensual same-sex relationships. Let’s support the equal rights of the #LGBTIQ+ community. #Pride