New Word Alert: Endling

This one’s sad. An endling is the last known living individual of a now-extinct species.

Arrived at this word by way of reading about the Thylacine. Very much worth a watch is this short film about a performance adaptation of a picture book titled The Dream of the Thylacine.

Posted on Friday, February 3rd, 2023. Tags: words.

New Word Alert!

Deaccession, to sell or otherwise let go from a collection.

Sort of the opposite of acquire. Weird that we don’t say dequire instead.

Hat tip!

Posted on Wednesday, February 1st, 2023. Tags: words.

New Word Alert!

I like meeting new words. Today’s: coulee: a ravine, gully, or other erosion-related landscape feature that may or may not still contain water. Learned from Stephen Graham Jones’ Backbone of the World.

Posted on Friday, January 20th, 2023. Tags: words.