His first word is conundrum.
(A 1645 word popularized by Alan Greenspan, conundrum is "a puzzlement than can be dealt with only by a speculation").
Initially, there was no word on the Salisbury conundrum from President Donald Trump, but he later told reporters, "As soon as we get the facts straight, if we agree with them, we will condemn Russia or whoever it may be".
There have been many documentaries and many thousands of words written about this conundrum, with those who have chosen to interpret their lives as not belonging to themselves but to their God at the forefront.
His words reflected a real conundrum: the general public feels it is not adequately protected against the random violence of terrorists, but every pro-active policing effort seriously alienates India's largest minority community.
What to do with foreign words in English is a conundrum, and there are many such conundrums in English.
A deep and ancient conundrum is how words (or thoughts) manage to be connected with determinate parts of nature.
They have no truck with word counts, tricky metaphors, lexical conundrums, characters who won't do as they are told.
It is a conundrum, which is an English word that means, pinche pendejo gabacho or a birth control device, I don't know which.
Every person -- especially every creative person and particularly those of us driven by words -- is facing a modern day conundrum: what means you, Twitter?
They were, in other words, reproducing the epistemological conundrums that had bedeviled modern philosophy since Descartes.
