We’ll find out-—but not today. You and i have both had enough sad news. I’m going to look at some more words:

gamalog: not online: This is a term for a simpleton, heard in the Gaeltacht region of Ireland.

sordor noun [ mass noun ] chiefly literary, physical or moral sordidness. the cleaned-up sordor of Soho side streets. ORIGIN early 19th cent.: from sordid, on the pattern of the pair squalid, squalor .

ghazal noun (in Middle Eastern and Indian literature and music) a lyric poem with a fixed number of verses and a repeated rhyme, typically on the theme of love, and normally set to music. ORIGIN via Persian from Arabic ġazal .

shambolic adjective informal, chiefly Brit. chaotic, disorganized, or mismanaged. shambolically adverb ORIGIN 1970s: from shambles, probably on the pattern of symbolic.

cannabinoid noun [ mass noun ] Chemistry, any of a group of closely related compounds which include cannabinol and the active constituents of cannabis.

HERE’S A NICE ONE:

hendiadys noun [ mass noun ] the expression of a single idea by two words connected with ‘and’, e.g. nice and warm, when one could be used to modify the other, as in nicely warm. ORIGIN late 16th cent.: via medieval Latin from Greek hen dia duoin ‘one thing by two’.

echidna noun a spiny insectivorous egg-laying mammal with a long snout and claws, native to Australia and New Guinea. Also called spiny anteater. ●Family Tachyglossidae, order Monotremata: two genera and species. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: modern Latin, from Greek ekhidna ‘viper’, also the name of a mythical creature which gave birth to the Hydra; compare with ekhinos ‘sea urchin, hedgehog’.

That’s enough. I have to cook dinner — every night. Chicken livers and mushrooms with carmelized onions, mini potatoes, roasted parsnips, and if I’m up to it, steamed broccoli.

anon