These are write-ups diving into interesting word families, like the “plat-” words with an underlying concept of “flat” (e.g. platypus, platitude, plateau, platform…)
The word evanescence means “the quality of being fleeting or vanishing quickly; impermanence”. It is also a pretty ok band from Arkansas. But what’s really
The word flatulence refers to gas trapped in the digestive system, which is often smelly. It comes from Latin flatus “a snorting; a breaking wind”.
The duck-billed platypus is unique for many reasons—being the only mammal with venom, having biofluorescence, etc. But it is also interesting because of its name.
