Word To Use Today: plaice.

 The plaice is a romantic fish:

No, no really, it is. 

I mean, what could be more romantic than Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein's great song?

You know the one:

There's a plaice for us

Somewhere a plaice for us....

What?

That's a different kind of plaice?

But it's not, you know. 

Not deep down. 

Not really.

Word To Use Today: plaice. The Old French word for the fishy kind of plaice is plaïz, from the Latin platessa, flatfish, from the Greek platus, which means flat or broad.

The word place also comes from Old French, from the Latin platēa, courtyard, and before that, yes, from the Greek platus.

Well, isn't a shared history the very essence of romance?