Okay, guys. So this is going to be so great. You're going to learn words and stuff.
I'm really happy I get to continue this blog. Words are my passion, and they're basically the coolest things in the world. Like, just think of the word Shemomakvda, which means "I accidentally killed him/her" in Georgian. Like. Word Porn. That's what this blog is. It's the simplest way to describe it.
So, for all y'all just now reading my blog for the first time, I normally introduce a word and give a definition, sometimes lengthy, sometimes pretty short. But if they're really short, I'l lprobably include 1 or 2 more words.
So the word for this week is Leucipotomy. Like, what in the name of Sam Heck is that? Well. Let me tell you a little story. Sometimes, people invent a word... Just to say that they invented a word! And that, dear friends, is where Leucipotomy comes in.
Morris Maples, author of the novel White Horses and other Hill Figures, was probably thinking of something like, "Hey. There's got to be some way to shorten that title." And he did just that. (But didn't end up changing the title at all.) Leucipotomy means the Act of Carving Small Horses on Hillsides. Yeah.
The term comes from the Greek Leuci-, meaning white, hippo-, meaning horse, and -tomy, being the cutting out of. (As in Appendectomy)
Now, fun fact, the small town of Devizes, in Wiltshire, England, had a lot of these carved horses in their hillsides. Like a lot. Buttloads. And so, in honor of their Millennial Anniversary, they made a gigantic carved white horse. That took 7 people 10 days to finish. It's a big horse. Larger than life.
So now, whenever you see a white horse carved into a hillside, just know... You just saw somebody's Leucipotomy.
I'm really happy I get to continue this blog. Words are my passion, and they're basically the coolest things in the world. Like, just think of the word Shemomakvda, which means "I accidentally killed him/her" in Georgian. Like. Word Porn. That's what this blog is. It's the simplest way to describe it.
So, for all y'all just now reading my blog for the first time, I normally introduce a word and give a definition, sometimes lengthy, sometimes pretty short. But if they're really short, I'l lprobably include 1 or 2 more words.
So the word for this week is Leucipotomy. Like, what in the name of Sam Heck is that? Well. Let me tell you a little story. Sometimes, people invent a word... Just to say that they invented a word! And that, dear friends, is where Leucipotomy comes in.
Morris Maples, author of the novel White Horses and other Hill Figures, was probably thinking of something like, "Hey. There's got to be some way to shorten that title." And he did just that. (But didn't end up changing the title at all.) Leucipotomy means the Act of Carving Small Horses on Hillsides. Yeah.
The term comes from the Greek Leuci-, meaning white, hippo-, meaning horse, and -tomy, being the cutting out of. (As in Appendectomy)
Now, fun fact, the small town of Devizes, in Wiltshire, England, had a lot of these carved horses in their hillsides. Like a lot. Buttloads. And so, in honor of their Millennial Anniversary, they made a gigantic carved white horse. That took 7 people 10 days to finish. It's a big horse. Larger than life.
So now, whenever you see a white horse carved into a hillside, just know... You just saw somebody's Leucipotomy.
