“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.”
The End, Ernest Hemingway
In the tiny letter signed by Kafka, there was written :” Everything you love will probably be lost, but in the end love will come back another way. ′′
from Wordsmith.org, forwarded by SB Bill (Hinesburg SBs):
A.Word.A.Daywith Anu Garg
glossolalia
PRONUNCIATION:(glos-uh-LAY-lee-uh)
MEANING:noun: Unintelligible utterances occurring during religious excitation, schizophrenia, etc. Also known as speaking in tongues.
ETYMOLOGY:From Greek glosso- (tongue, language) + -lalia (chatter, babbling), from lalein (to babble). Earliest documented use: 1879. A related term is coprolalia.
USAGE:“He gave Traycee-Lay a quick, irritated look because her glossolalia, which came out something like: ‘Oh my Guhd, oh my Guhd… yasyas yas, yasyas yas… in-nin-nin’ … her glossolalia was interfering with his delivery.”
John Eppel; Hatchings; Ama Books; 2006.
See more usage examples of glossolalia in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.
SB Jerry, also known a Baculum Boy, also wants to make us aware of the sex habits of banana slugs:
That’s enough fun for one day!