Lessons From the Dictionary: Ben Trovato

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This isn’t a man named Ben Trovato … but doesn’t it feel like it should be? (Photo by Cottonbro via Pexels).

Full disclosure: I am not yet out of the A section in my great cover-to-cover dictionary read. (In fact, since it’s my pandemic project, I’m faced with the prospect that I’m running out of pandemic). Today, we’re jumping ahead a little, to the B section, because I just learned an amazing word — okay, a…