Helloian

The Gaelic festival of greeting started by Laird Ian Stewart in the Middle Ages and celebrated each year on October 31. Central to the festival is ‘stick-or-meating’ whereby children move door to door bearing a cudgel and a hessian bag. Home owners are greeted and then threatened with a gentle beating if they do not provide corned beef or a similar meat product.

sorealism

so-re-al-ism

noun

A 21st century capitalist movement led by television executives focused on the production of carefully stage-managed programs filmed in documentary style and laden with product placement aimed at stimulating subconscious consumer desires.

thesaurus

the-sau-rus

noun

Unique amongst the dinosaurs. This creature is decidedly definite in its quest to determine the surrounding environment by arranging it into groups according to similarity.