Wacky Word Wednesday
Wacky Word Wednesday is a weekly celebration of some of the wackiest and most interesting words from around the world. Language lovers, translators, and localization fanatics — this is the place for you.
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Frisson – Wacky Word Wednesday
Strapped into a rollercoaster with a white-knuckled grip on the padded bar that you hope is holding you down, you hear the clack-clack-clack of the chain that is lifting your cart up what seems to be an impossibly tall hill and you feel…what exactly is that feeling? Is it excitement? Is it fear? Is it a convolution of the two? Today’s Wacky Word describes the feeling that we hate to love—frisson.