Jul 16, 2023
Heh yes it’s a mouthful!
I suppose the only thing it’s got going for it, in terms of prosody, is that it’s long enough to have two stressed syllables that give it a bit of a train-chugging rhythm: MY-crow-mow-BILL-a-tea
Two dactyls!
Written by Clive Thompson
I write 2X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide. Writer at NYT mag/Wired; author, “Coders”. @clive@saturation.social clive@clivethompson.net