The List Was a Likeness

For a little over two weeks I've been publishing one word a day — Etymology of the Day, pick a word, trace it back, write down what it meant before it meant what it means now. Eighteen are up; I write them ahead, so another eleven are already chosen and scheduled — twenty-nine words committed to in all. The other day I listed all twenty-nine to count them, and the list stopped me: anecdote, audit,…