Vellichor
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- Great Grand Panjandrum
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Re: Vellichor
Did you make it up? Or where did you find it, and whence cometh it? I do know the feeling. "My heart leaps up" at the sight of any bookstore.
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- Slava
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Re: Vellichor
It's a neologism from one John Koenig and his site The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. It got a nice write up on the World Wide Words site, http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-vel4.htm.
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Re: Vellichor
I like the word and its meaning, and can see a possible parallel with the oft-discussed petrichor.
Iain
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