Yearly Archives: 2014

acersecomic_905Acersecomic: A person whose hair has never been cut.Biblioclasm_905Biblioclasm: The practice of destroying, often ceremoniously, books or other written material and media.Cacodemonomania_905Cacodemonomania: The pathological belief that one is inhabited by an evil spirit.xenization_905Xenization: The act of traveling as a stranger.Yonderly_905Yonderly: Mentally or emotionally distant; absent-minded.zugzwang_905Zugzwang: A position in which any decision or move will result in problem

The A – Z Of Unusual Words – a 2011 series by mutiple lecool cover artists the Project Twins (Cork based graphic artists James and Michael Fitzgerald).

See the entire alphabet here.

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Miguel Jiron’s vibrantly coloured, elegantly phrased short tells the story of a young boy who travels to Nicaragua with his family and faces the first of many cultural challenges – rolling his r’s to pronounce the name of the country correctly.

Previously: Paintstorm

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