Sunday Rest: Word Not To Use Today: glamdigan.

 A glamdigan is a cardigan that makes the wearer look glamorous.

I don't know whether to marvel more at fashion journalists' desire for ever more hideous and unnecessary words, or the public's ability for eternal hope and self-delusion.

Still, we wouldn't want to be without eternal hope and self-delusion, would we? 

The world would be so much grimmer a place.

Sunday Rest: glamdigan. The glam bit is presumably from the word glamour, a Scottish form of the word grammar and meaning to do with magic (because anyone who can read and write was in former times thought to be up to no good). The -digan bit comes from the word cardigan, after the 7th Earl of Cardigan who led the Charge if the Light Brigade during the Crimean War. He probably didn't have that much to do with cardigans, really, but he was a popular figure at a time when the garment was looking for a name.

For fans of knitted garments, The Charge of the Light Brigade was part of the Battle of Balaclava.