If there’s one thing I demand in my washcloths
It’s bibulousness. And definitely not plasm. This delightful translation comes courtesy of my local dollar store.
The surprise is that “bibulous,” meaning highly absorbent, is quite appropriate. Unsure what they were thinking with “plasm,” though.
Un mot by any other nom
Living in a bilingual household, and I must confess to being the least bilingual of the five, I am daily exposed to two vocabularies, English and French. Perhaps it’s my anglophone outsider’s perspective, but certain words in French just seem far nicer than the things they represent.
Take the everyday term la poubelle; French for garbage. The pou part is perfectly in character. It’s that belle (or beautiful) inside that seems to oppose the notion of the fly-catching bin at the end of your driveway. Picture rubbish in ballet slippers. Worth a smile, every time you say it.