I was incredibly pleased to alight on the word ‘petrichor’ | Hannah Jane Parkinson

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I was incredibly pleased to alight on the word ‘petrichor’ | Hannah Jane Parkinson
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It meant I could stop asking people whether they also thought ‘rain smelled good’

There are times when we discover a word that maybe we didn’t even realise we needed, but after we are inducted we’d feel lost without. For me, this word – or one of them – is petrichor. The Oxford English Dictionary defines petrichor as: “A pleasant, distinctive smell frequently accompanying the first rain after a long period of warm, dry weather in certain regions.”

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