Sunday Rest: frayromantic. Word Not To Use Today.

 There comes a point when people of taste begin hoping that the love of their lives won't buy them a Valentine's card.

Or a scarlet teddy bear, either.

Frayromantic is an excellent word to describe the erosion of that kind of starry-eyed obsession, and the emergence of something slightly more clear-eyed.

Sadly, it doesn't describe anything of the sort. It actually describes someone who only experiences romantic feelings towards people they don't know, who hardly know.

Ah well.

Sunday Rest: frayromantic. I have found a source online which says that the fray- bit of this word comes from an Old English word for stranger, but, as far as I can see, there isn't any such Old English word for stranger, so that's a bit of a puzzle. 

The romantic bit of the word is to do with telling stories, and is basically the same word as Roman.