Alium is the latin name for garlic and allium is the version used for the scientific name!
And I'm glad you like it, thank you 
@oldrawgabbit So that would presumably be the King James version, which if I recall was out in 1611? So not Middle English. Interestinger π
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#TIL the word MULCT.
noun: a fine or compulsory payment
verb: to extract money by taxation or by fraud
Possibly originates from a #ProtoIndoEuropean word for "to extract" or "to milk (something).
I have never heard or read this word in my life.
#English is gloriously weird.
Here's one of mine:
#TIL that the verb "redund" exists, and it makes my heart happy.
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] oops, just read the whole thread. Sorry for redunding.
...an error Apelles had made in the rendering of a shoe. But once Apelles had corrected the shoe, the cobbler launched into criticizing the legs, which prompted Apelles to tell him to "keep to his last" (as the phrase was rendered in the 1600s CE).
Today, we say "stay in your lane." π
A person who ignores this advice and spouts opinions on things they don't know anything about, thereby going "beyond the shoe," is an "ultracrepidarian."
NEW. FAVORITE. WORD.
2/2
Y'ALL.
If you love the interrobang (β½) as much as I do, you're gonna go 30-50 feral hogs wild over the exclomma*
(*Someone in comments said "exclamma," but that sounds like a weird seafood dish to me.)
Attached: 1 image Tired of waiting until the end of a sentence before you can be histrionic? The exclamation comma.
I've just stuck the word "wamblecropt" into my #fantasy #WIP, and I am terribly pleased.
βWamblecropt is the most exquisite word in the English language. Say it. Each syllable is intolerably beautiful.β
β Mark Forsyth,
The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language
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