There comes a point after, oh, fifteen years of editing a monthly magazine, when it’s easy to convince yourself that you’ve developed at least a passing acquaintance with most of the words in the English language. Once you’ve found excuses to work words like ‘obeophone,’ ‘cacodemomania,’ and ‘prestidigitation’ into the things that you publish, you develop a conceit that you’re not leaving many linguistic stones unturned. So it was with interest that I learned a new word last week. It’s an acronym, can be used as a noun and a verb and, although a relatively new addition to our landscape of language, it relates to an activity as old as human civilization itself.
It’s WWOOF.
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