What Bees Do With Their Feet

And other notes for today

Today's little-known scientific fact, followed by today's grammar lesson:

Bees taste things with their feet.

So it is correct to say "Bees taste differently." Unless you're talking about eating bees, in which case it would be "this fried bee tastes different from the boiled one."

Today's word:

zhuzh

Jack Lynch on Twitter proposes it as the worst possible starting word on WORDLE. Alternative spellings: zhoozh, zhoosh

Means "make something more stylish, lively or attractive" (with up). Dates back to the 1960s. Comes from Polari (which is a kind of British slang deriving from Italian, Romany, Cockney rhyming, wrestling, circus, theatre and gay). According to Dictionary.com, zhuzh "may be purely onomatopoeic, representing the sound of someone rushing around." Used in print lately: David Sims in the Atlantic, describing the opening of a John Mulaney stand-up special: "There's no fanfare, no zhoozhing things up, and certainly no roaring applause." Merriam-Webster.com: "A go-to word for Queer Eye's original fashion guru, zhuzh describes the act of making slight improvements or accents to a wardrobe or look." Carson Kressley, the guru in question, said he learned the term while working for Ralph Lauren.

Today's most eloquent posting on Nextdoor French Quarter:

“The energy in The People and the place at #Popeyes on Read Blvd is absolutely unacceptable! Eye will never eat or pick up deliveries from there until all of them are replaced! People be mad and ugly for no reason

“Miserable in themselves . . . and I'm all for peace love n light until somebody play with me!

“Eye don't play that! The way that lil ***** talked to her employees lawwwddddd!”