Telecommut
Here are some other great picks from the PSG staff.
- Annette: defenestration The word refers to throwing someone/something out of a window or a position of power. “I like the way defenestration sounds and I also love the fact that we have a word for the specific action of throwing something out a window.”
- Colleen: her kids’ names She says, “I got to pick them out—with my wife’s help, of course—and they make me the most happy in the world.”
- Don: tintinnabulation Tintinnabulation is the sound of a bell ringing; “I love winter and it makes me think of sleigh bells.”
- Jamaica: penumbra A penumbra is a partial shadow, somewhere between full shadow and full light. Jamaica says, “I like the word because it makes me think of ambiguous and liminal ideas and spaces.”
- Kate: chortle Chortle is Kate’s favorite word because it’s fun to say and she loves actually hearing someone chortle. “It’s the rarest and most genuine type of laugh. Anyone who chortles is good with me.”
- Nora: petrichor This word refers to the smell of the earth after it rains. Nora says, “I like the sound of the word, but I also love the smell that it’s describing.”
