I could say the word "snake" without tensing my muscles, I could look at a photo without gagging.
I was avoiding saying the word "snake" or looking at photos of them in the same way that a depressed person might avoid human interaction.
Until very recently, the mere sight of a snake on TV would send chills down my spine, walking on grass wasn't an option and even saying the word "snake" made my throat close up.
Ribbons of words snake among the parts, suggesting dream narratives as unpredictable as machines are reliable.
In August, a graphic designer and programmer named Eric Bailey created a browser extension that automatically replaces all Internet references to "millennials" with the words "snake people".
In other words, snakes may think twice about attacking tail shaking squirrels because they will probably miss.
The South Indian, Tamil name, Aravan, is popularly believed to be derived from the word aravam (snake).
For this reason, it is believed that the original name had an initial h-sound, a fact that has led Serbian scholar Ljubinko Radenković to reject the etymology given by several dictionaries, including that of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, by which the demon's name comes from the Turkish word 'ala' (snake) as that word lacks the h-sound.
An article on the ophicleide, a cavernous French brass instrument, opens with: "A barbarous name, compounded of the Greek words for snake and door-key".
"Yet, there is no life without problems, and a kind word chases the snake," Mr. Abdurasulov declares, handily dismissing the entire Western world of materialist angst far out there beyond the tree line.
At some point, the property was named Sagtikos -- a Secatogue word meaning "the snake that hisses" -- for a meandering, bubbling creek that had been on the property, Mrs. Donohue said.
