Sunday Rest: phast. Word Not To Use Today.

A phast?

Well, what does it sound like?

Yes, that's right: but a fast from what, exactly?  

A phast is the act of avoiding looking at one's phone.

Now, the word phast has never been pretty, but it has for some time had a perfectly respectable meaning: PHAST is a computer-aided system designed to analyse virus-based elements within bacteria. 

But now, sadly, we have this new sort of phast - and, sounding as it does exactly like fast, it's one that doesn't give anyone any clue what it is that's not being consumed.

You know, I'm even wondering if it's worse than digital detox.

It's a close-run thing.

Sunday Rest: phast. The computer program is made up of letters from Phage Search Tool, a phage being a virus, or bits of a virus, that lives inside a bacterium. The other meaning is presumably a mixture of the words phone and fast. 

Ugh!