Word of the Day

Now this is why I love the English language. It is replete and festooned with witty, blithesome, fustian flourishes that leave the reader giddy and warm like an IED of sweetness has been detonated in ones sanguine apparatus of affection and hate. Below, my dear friends is an example of such redoubtable word pictures and the gift of gab that eternally anchor my love –

A bumbershoot is exactly the same as an umbrella, but it’s a much better word. The bumber bit is a variant of brolly, and the shoot is there because it looks a little bit like a parachute.— Mark Forsyth

This is Lagos ! Eko o ni baje ! Loosely translated as “Lagos will not spoil”or “Lagos will always prevail” An unofficial city motto if you like. Lagos in June and July becomes a wet wet wet Bumbershoot land. A few have even tried kayaking in the temporary water-world.

P.S. In case you didn’t catch it, “Bumbershoot” was my word of the day.