Jeremiads and other figures of speech you should know or the world as we know it is going to end.

They didn’t get into America’s highest office by being dull and dim-witted. Well, in most cases.

At the risk of making you bibulous, let’s look at the Latin origins of many English words.

A doctor who studied psychology, which comes from the root words ‘psycho’ (soul; spirit) and ‘logy’ (study of), might diagnose you with a ‘phobia’ (fear), which is an irrational anxiety or dread of something.

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Mrs. Perkins, bookmobiles and even the Army are among the defining elements in this columnist’s language-loving journey.

Much to the joy (or maybe the disappointment, you be the judge) of word wonks everywhere, some of the Trumps trial’s combatants even coined new words to describe one another.

‘Outside,’ ‘flies,’ ‘like,’ ‘Intercourse’ and other words that take us in the wrong direction for a righteous laugh.

A toast, then, to figures of speech and the spirited way they enhance our world.

Belly up with them if you can stomach some clever word play.