My patron saint is St. Arbucks. I just happen to like coffee.
On their current campaign, they’re promoting “Akeelah and the Bee.” They do this by using obscure words like “prestidigitation” and the like. But one thing about this annoys me.
Take my current coffee “sleeve.” It says “cambist.” For the defintion of the word, they have “1: wining word from the 1977 national spelling bee.”
I’m sorry, but that is not a definition. It tells us absolutely nothing about what “cambist” means (by the way, it means someone who is skilled in trading, in case you were wondering).
Oh well. I’ll chalk this up with the irritating fact that the bottom of my cup says “Careful, the beverage you’re about to enjoy is extremely hot” even though my coffee is now an hour old and nowhere near “extremely hot”…..
