Have you heard the PSITHURISM today?

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PSITHURISM [SIGH-thur-IS-em] (noun)

The sound of rustling leaves or wind in the trees. 

"Another day the sweet south is blowing; do you not see how the larch and lime palpitate with pleasure? ... do you not hear the musical psithurism of the feathered foliage?"
--Mortimer Collins, "The Secret of a Long Life" (1875)

 

Do you need more RHATHYMIA in your life?

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RHATHYMIA [ruh-THY-mia] (noun)

Light-hearted, carefree behavior

"The Beatles proved that one could combine rhathymia with mayhem in ‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer,’ their bizarrely jaunty little ditty about a serial killer." (TWITO, page 125)