Aagh, superfluous ludic language. So punny it’s painful. My apologies. But it captures the point. There has been a horrendous hiatus and now we begin again, a small beginning, a subtle shift of the left big toe, but there it is. A friend pointed out this interesting article on the New York Times’ collection of data on the words that their online readers most frequently check on their online dictionary. I could engage now in a solipsistic reverie on the abstruse polysyllables, but you would probably find such feckless perorations decidedly enervating and descend into apoplectic paroxysms. Such a contretemps between us would be far from my intent. Rather than continue with this soporific hubris, thereby inviting your opprobrium,  I will therefore practice greater linguistic austerity and avoid such egregious and incendiary, not to say, obstreperous word mountains. You get the idea. Right, I’ll shut me gob now. Please enjoy the article.