Words You Have Taught Me — April 2020
#15 — a social un-distancing listicle
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6 min readApr 22, 2020
Echoes of war and sex, outlaws and missionaries, flowers and fabrics, Greek myths and Hebrew traditions, science and slang, in this edition of WYHTM.
Novel terms from each of my four co-editors to boot!
Here is the latest in literary lingo, journalist jargon, author’s argot and pencil pusher pidgin that I soaked up here since the last time we did this …
Biafran civil war
a.k.a. the Nigerian Civil War, fought between the government of Nigeria and the secessionist state of Biafra from July 1967 to January 1970, resulting in the death of as many as 2 million civilians
from Michael Stang, interviewing Sylvia Wohlfarth
