I don't/won't eat anything with more than four legs or fewer than two (although I do eat certain fish). I think it's my mother's ingrained example of shuddering at the sight of insects, spiders, slugs and worms. I'm not scared of them, although I do have a slight aversion to spiders if they invade my home, but eating them doesn't appeal so no lobster, crab, prawns, shrimps, hard shell shellfish, or crawdads etc. I remember, with a mother-like shudder, my grandad eating cockles from a jar, with a pin. I also remember the rotten, dead crabs my children used to present after finding them washed up on the beach. The way marine pollution is going, I'm probably quite sensible.
OP I look up definitions of previously unknown words that I find in books I'm reading. I try to use them in a sentence but some of them are so obscure I can't find a sensible way, (I'm re-reading Reginald Hill's Dalziel and Pascoe series. He sprinkles them liberally). Here are some examples:
haruspical - relating to or having the characteristics of an haruspex.... Hmm...
amanuensis - a literary or artistic assistant, in particular one who takes dictation or copies manuscripts
