debmacchas.bsky.social

debmacchas.bsky.social

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Singer. Language lover. Sense of humor embraces the sharp and absurd. Working to be brave. Calls it by name: genocide. Ruled by a dog and the dog's cats.

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Sometimes the historical dictionary offers solace through the existence of an obsolete word that is sorely needed now. One of them is ‘respair’, recorded just once, in the 15th century. It means fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.

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Although Stan Lee and Steve Ditko introduced the superhero Spider-Man in a 1962 anthology comic book (Amazing Fantasy #15), the word "spiderman" predates the character. It's recorded c. 1954 as a word for a steeplejack, a person who scales tall structures to perform maintenance or construction.