fi
n.— «After his plane’s wing clipped another’s, Doc Searls kept his sanity during the hours of interminable delay by digging into his kit bag for widgets that give him wireless connectivity. And best of all, he got some “free ‘Fi’” from a neighbour of a friend.» —“Free Fi Free Fi Roam” by Bernard Goldbach IrishEyes (Kilkenny, Ireland) July 16, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
What if, instead of being an inanimate object, a dictionary were alive? That’s the idea behind a lavishly illustrated new children’s book called The Dictionary Story (Bookshop|Amazon) by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston. This is part of a...
Rowan in Ottawa, Ontario, says her Irish mom used a puzzling word to indicate a sort of restless discontent not caused by anything in particular. It may be neamhchinnte, which means “uncertain” or “indecisive.” This is part...