Potpourri

Today’s Word of the Day is “potpourri.” It means a mixture – whether of petals, or spices, or images, or music. It may or may not add up to a pleasing medley. Does it? You make the call. And for all you insatiably curious linguists out there, the origin story for this word is here.  But for those of you loathe to click, in a nutshell: ‘Potpourri’ was borrowed directly from the French ‘pot pourri.’ In that language the literal meaning of these words is “putrid pot.”