Zyzzyva has to be one of the most obscure English words ever. It’s the name of a kind of South American weevil (Curculionidae) discovered by Thomas Casey in 1922. However, according to the OED its etymology (not ‘entomology’, geddit, geddit?) is that it was actually coined as a way of being the last word in […]
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Nathalie M.L. Römer is an author based in Frövi, Sweden. She lives here with her partner, Anders. Before this, she had lived for over two decades in Britain. She was born and initially raised in the Netherlands, and later also lived in Curaçao.
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