You said you loved me, or were you just being kind?

[venta]

On my desk at work, I have a calendar of Lost Language. Technically, for long and boring reasons, it's a 2011 calendar, which means I'm in danger of thinking today is Tuesday.

Every so often, the word of the day turns out to be a word I use all the time. Well, fair enough, I have a somewhat rapacious and eclectic approach to words. Gems from this week include "ruriculous", "gloppened" and "sevous" (none of which I knew).

Today's word (which is actually a phrase):

To be in a huff: to have a fit of petulance or offended dignity.

Is there any meaningful sense in which that particular bit of language is lost?

Comments

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

I didn't know zeugma was a word except there are two Turkish restaurants with the same owner on London Road and they are called Zeugma and Zeugma Iki (iki means 2). Zeugma Iki is more of a cafe that does takeaway.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I hope zeugma doesn't mean something different in Turkish, because I like the idea of someone naming restuarants after obscure rhetorical devices :)

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

It's sort of a pun. There is a town called Zeugma where there were beautiful mosaics, one of which is copied on the front of the restaurant: http://www.artnet.com/magazine/features/acar/acar8-29-00.asp but the word zeugma also means bond so it's a play on words for having two of them.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

I'm glad Iki does mean something different in Turkish.

Ickiness and food = not good combo.