plyboo
n.— «The bamboo used to make plyboo is grown in managed forests in China, so there is no impact on wild stands used by pandas as food.» —“For a Hardwood Floor, Plyboo Is One Tough Grass” by Tom Neven Washington Post Apr. 4, 1996. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Many of us struggled with the Old English poem “Beowulf” in high school. But what if you could actually hear “Beowulf” in the English of today? There’s a new translation by Maria Dahvana Headley that uses contemporary...
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...