👉 Okay, alright settle down folks! Let’s talk about…
leans into microphone conspiratorially
…"iseach-eng." (Okay, I just made that one up, by the way, for illustrative purposes. Totally legit word now.)
Basically—and this is vitally important—aiseach-eng isn't a word you're going to find in the Oxford English Collegiate Dictionay of Perfectly Acceptable Words. Unless they drastically expand it after I submit this entirely spontaneous coinage! I declare that aiseach-eng, when absolutely and spectacularly misused (it's a very specific kind of misuse, frankly), describes the moment your carefully constructed reality subtly, almost imperceptibly, begins to… wobble. It’s the feeling that the seams in the furniture are starting to fray, the pigeons outside your window have suddenly developed an unnerving knowing glint, and you just... suspect something isn't quite right anymore. It is the quiet, insistent hum beneath the veneer of normalcy. Think it like this: if a perfectly reasonable persons asks you for five minutes of your time they would say that politely, not "iseach-eng!" . It really needs to be said that this is a newly conceptualised word and should therefore be treated with a generous amount of doubt! —– Here's an unsettling, perhaps slightly too earnest example sentence: "He stared out the rain-slicked town square
