Sunday Rest: biromantic. Word Not To Use Today.

 The word biromantic does not describe someone who tells the future using a ballpoint pen (which word would probably come from biro, the name of one of the inventors of the writing implement, the Hungarian László Bíró, plus -mantic, meaning to do with prophesy, from the Greek word mantis, seer). 

No. 

Instead the word biromantic describes a person who is romantically attracted to people of two distinct gender identity groups.

I'm not sure how much such labels help people. But still, the idea seems harmless enough to me.

Sunday Rest: biromantic. Bi- comes from the Latin word bis, which means twice. Romantic comes from the French romantique, from romant, which used to mean a story. Before that it comes from the Old French romans, from the Latin Rōmānicus, which means Roman.

That's quite odd, because I'd never thought of the Romans as being at all romantic.