“If a famous painting changed owners, if a precious manuscript was sold at auction, if an old palace burned down, if the bearer of an aristocratic name was involved in a scandal, the readers of many thousands of feature articles at once learned the facts. What is more, on that same day or by the next day at the latest they received an additional dose of anecdotal, historical, psychological, erotic, and other stuff on the catchword of the moment.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/07/01/if-a-famous-painting-changed-owners-if-a-precious-manuscript-was-sold-at-auction-if-an-old-palace-burned-down-if-the-bearer-of-an-aristocratic-name-was-involved-in-a-scandal-the-readers-of-many/

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The Guardian has a new word game called Wordiply where you try to fit three letter words into the longest word you can make.

Outrageously, it refused to accept "floccinaucinihilipilification" and is, therefore, dead to me. #Catchword