I was reading about the medial S over lunch (that S that looks like a lowercase F in old documents), and I quietly said, "I love my job."
My husband, who is a little hard of hearing, asked, "All hope is lost?"
Yes, my love, same number of syllables, and I say that a lot too, but not today. ❤️
Now I'm reading about the Republic of Letters, and I came across a word I hadn't seen before: "salonnières."
This was the name for women who held influential salons before the French Revolution.
@grammargirl Cool word! It reminded me of some favorite #books when I was a teenager, the “Betsy-Tacy” series by Maud Hart Lovelace.
The stories were based on the author’s youth in the early 1900s in Minnesota. She loved writing and language, and in high school during a phase of trying to be glamorous she added foreign words to her speech. Evenings with friends became “soirées,” but I have a feeling she’d have loved “salonnières”!
