Grace Tierney writes in rural Ireland. Her award winning Wordfoolery blog about unusual English words has been running for 17 years exploring everything from “pooka” to “friggatriskaidekaphobia”.
Grace’s favourite eponymous hero is Casanova because his swashbuckling life was so extraordinary, yet he ended up as a quiet librarian. Her favourite word from the sea is gollywobbler because it's silly. Her favourite Viking words are hug and attercop because it's from her beloved childhood book "The Hobbit". Her favourite Christmas word is twixtmas because she loves that quiet time between Christmas and New Year's Eve. She loves the weather words degombling and dreich.
