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I also post regular reading updates on my Instagram account @periphra.sis. My username comes from the prose style ‘periphrasis’, which is derived from the Greek phrase for “talking around”. Periphrasis often occurs when a more concise and direct way of saying something is replaced by a longer, more verbose phrase that points to the same thing. An example would be to refer to a banana as an “elongated yellow fruit”, or to refer to the ocean as the “briny deep”.
