English doesn’t have words for many of life’s little aches, joys, urges and emotions. So John Koenig decided to create some, marrying ancient tongues with existing terms. His Dictionary of ...

John Koenig is the author of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (Simon & Schuster; 2021), a collection of hundreds of words created by him over 10 years. Each word indicates some little ache ...