Spanish · noun
Spanish Royal Academy ↗tacada
In billiards, a stroke—or a run of consecutive successful shots. The expression de una tacada means doing something in one go.
Volume 01 · Words and their neighbours
Taceda.
A small atlas of almost-words.
One letter can lead to another language, another meaning, or a completely different thought. This is a quiet space to notice the little changes.
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01 / 03Spanish · noun
Spanish Royal Academy ↗ceda
A less familiar Spanish word referring to a coarse animal hair or bristle, historically linked to the Latin saeta.
Invented title
A name for this notebooktaceda
Not presented here as a dictionary word. Its role is simply to invite curiosity about the near-misses and coincidences of language.
The beauty of the nearly familiar.
Some words sit just one letter apart but belong to entirely different stories. A changed vowel may be an accident, a borrowing, a regional form—or simply a new sound.
Taceda is a coined title for this independent, non-commercial collection of observations about language, spelling, and visual form.
Correspondence / 04
A note, a word,
a conversation.
Have a curious near-word, a language observation, or an idea for this notebook? We'd be glad to hear from you.