EMOTION, n. In addition to being a fantastic Carly Rae Jepsen album (in the singular) and a soaring Mariah Carey song (in the plural), this is also a word we use to talk about our inner lives. It comes to English from French émotion, which is from Latin ēmovēre, “to

SEXY LEXICOGRAPHY, or, a word of the week PORTMANTEAU, n. This word, in its first sense, means a suitcase, usually a leather one that opens into two equal parts. It comes to English via the French porte-manteau (or portemanteau, let’s not split hyphens), literally “carry-coat,” although in French, it