Why didn’t I know before now that the Oxford English Dictionary has a blog?
(Where I learn, among other things, that my birth-year new word is “noshery.” I suppose I could try again and get a different one, but that would be cheating.)
And then, from YouTube, there’s this: a song about Jólakötturinn , the Icelandic Christmas Cat (who is Not a Nice Kitty):
I think we have here an explanation for the Christmas Sweater tradition….