And I’m afraid this doesn’t rate too highly on the excitment factor, either. But it’s a start, so here goes.

The words “fictitious” and “factitious” unfortunately mean (almost) the same thing. Which I think is a pity because they would make such a pretty antithetical pair otherwise. But there it is. Sometimes English doesn’t fit quite the way we would like it to.

Just heard my friend on the phone.

“No, no, Danish pastries, like croissants, pain-au-chocolat…”