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Words are being removed from dictionaries to make room for new ones. We think some of them deserve better. Who knows what forgotten little nocturnal marsupial was erased for the word ‘floppy disc’?
This is our small attempt to restore some balance.
Word You Never Heard is a recurring series from Pain In The Arts, drawn from one of our favourite books, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig. Words that fill the gaps. Feelings that exist but have never had a name.
In each episode, one of us reads a forgotten or reimagined word from the book. The other has never seen it. With only a handful of clues, they have less than half an hour to work out what it means – or build their own definition from scratch. But before the clock runs out, a guess has to be made.
Today’s word is Agnosthesia.
Pain In The Arts is a weekly podcast about the reality of creative life. Hosted by Breallyn and Lyndon Wesley. One of them never knows the topic until recording begins.
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So what is it exactly?
Pain In The Arts is a weekly podcast about the reality of making things – the breakthroughs, the false starts, the imposter syndrome and the inevitable triumph that makes it all worth it.
Each week, one of us brings a topic. The other finds out what it is at the same time you do. No scripts. Just a genuine conversation about the creative life we’re actually living.
Hosted by Breallyn and Lyndon – a novelist-in-progress and a music producer – the show has a format we’ve never heard anywhere else.
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