The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through The Lost Words Of The English Language - Plot & Excerpts
– Commute Weather – transport – car – bus – train – arriving late The weather When a death sentence is commuted to life imprisonment, it’s a good thing. However, commuting is uniformly awful. The connection between them, since you ask, is that both involve a com-mutual exchange. The noose is exchanged for the cell, small debts can be commuted for one large debt, and in nineteenth-century America individual purchases of railway tickets could be exchanged for one commutation ticket at a slightly reduced rate, that was valid for a year. However, you are still at your front door. It is said that every journey begins with a single step, but in my experience, every journey begins with a single step followed by a disorderly retreat once I realise that I’m sporting the wrong clothes for the weather or have forgotten my wallet or hipflask or crossbow. So let us begin with a celivagous (or ‘heavenward-wandering’) glance. The worst form of weather is a pogonip, which is a word we stole from the Shoshone Indians (along with the rest of their possessions) to describe a fog so cold that it freezes into ice crystals in mid-air.
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