Agnes by Tony Cochran for March 21, 2022

Yep, it is a real word.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/psithurism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UNH8ZHCI68

Pairs nicely with thunder, lightning and petrichor

I’m with Trout here.

Come to Florida during hurricane season.

You’ll hear lots of wind blowing through lots of trees—while uprooting them!!

I still think that, Trout!

♪ i got psithurism, i got music…

you’d think they could’ve come up with a better word, something more descriptive and better sounding. like “windigo,” perhaps…

The sound of wind blowing through an empty comic strip…

It’s interesting what random things one can learn from the comics and the comments about them. ;-)

You can use it as a cussword. In fact “God bless you” can be used as a cuss. This principle has been recognised by Lewis Carroll: “"I don’t know what you mean by ‘glory,’ " Alice said.Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. “Of course you don’t—till I tell you. I meant ’there’s a nice knock-down argument for you!’” || “But ‘glory’ doesn’t mean ‘a nice knock-down argument’,” Alice objected.|| “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”|| “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”|| “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.”

“Revenge of the Psith…”

Agnes is a fan of Mortimer Collins.

Is it the root of the attention getting “psst” ?

I read that this word is obsolete and that we already have a word for this in English: sough. But I looked it up and it has a couple of different definitions and that is only one.

Yes, I confess to having doubted and checking.

Yes my beloved Agnes is right.

(Can’t disagree with Trout, either, though.)

Agnes is probably getting A’s in English, at least as far as vocabulary. (Science and Geography, on the other hand….)